Can cities be held responsible for early school leaving? Evidence from the Netherlands

Kristof De Witte, Chris Klaveren and Anton J.H. Smets

Policy Studies, 2015, vol. 36, issue 2, 217-239

Abstract: This paper examines if ‘naming and shaming’ is an effective tool to increase accountability in school dropout for cities with disadvantaged student populations. It argues that a comparison with other cities might be unfair if regional and population characteristics differ. It discusses the example of two Dutch new towns. The new town policy deliberately attracted low- and medium-income households in the past, such that today the population of those cities differs from other cities. We use a matching analysis to account for observed differences in population and regional characteristics. The results point out that ‘naming and shaming’ may be a dangerous policy to increase accountability: early school leaving differences are driven, to a large extent, by observed differences in population and regional characteristics.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2014.1000847

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