Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

CEE Discussion Papers from Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE

Abstract: We provide estimates of the effect of attending a Faith school on educational attainment progress during the Primary education phase in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for Faith school attendance. Instead, we control for selection on religious schooling by tracking pupils over time and comparing attainments of students who exhibit different levels of commitment to religious education through their choice of Secondary school and residence. Our findings suggest that, once family preferences and selection into religious education are controlled for, Faith schools have only a very small effect on pupil educational progression in Primary school, this effect being between zero and under one-percentile on test scores at age 11, conditional on scores at age 7.

Keywords: Education; religion; faith schools; educational attainment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-11
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Journal Article: Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils? (2011)
Working Paper: Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils? (2009)
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