More Harm than Good?: Sorting Effects in a Compensatory Education Program

Laurent Davezies and Manon Garrouste

Journal of Human Resources, 2020, vol. 55, issue 1, 240-277

Abstract: By analyzing a French program that targeted low-achieving and socially disadvantaged junior high schools we provide evidence that school-based compensatory education policies create sorting effects. We use geocoded original data and a regression discontinuity framework to show that the program decreases the individual probability of attending a treated school and symmetrically increases the probability of attending a private school. The effects are driven by pupils from high socioeconomic backgrounds, resulting in an increase in social segregation across schools.

JEL-codes: C21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1
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Working Paper: More Harm than Good?: Sorting Effects in a Compensatory Education Program (2020)
Working Paper: More Harm than Good?: Sorting Effects in a Compensatory Education Program (2020)
Working Paper: More harm than good? Sorting effects in a Compensatory education program (2014)
Working Paper: More harm than good? Sorting effects in a compensatory education program (2014)
Working Paper: More harm than good? Sorting effects in a compensatory education program (2014)
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