The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Damon Clark and Emilia Del Bono

No 8617, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using instrumental variables methods that exploit the school assignment formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school attendance generated positive effects on labor market outcomes and significant decreases in fertility; for men, we find no elite school impacts on any of these later-life outcomes.

Keywords: instrumental variables; school quality; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C36 I2 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 84 pages
Date: 2014-11
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Published - published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 150-176

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