How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England

Rebecca Allen (), Simon Burgess () and Leigh McKenna ()
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Leigh McKenna: Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol.

No 10-20, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: We analyse the initial impact of a major school admission reform in Brighton and Hove. The new system incorporated a lottery for oversubscribed places and new catchment areas. We examine the post-reform changes in school composition. We locate the major winners and losers in terms of the quality of school attended. We match similar cities and conduct a difference-in-difference analysis of the policy change. We see no significant change in student sorting: if anything, the point estimates suggest a rise in socio-economic segregation. We do see a significant weakening of the dependence of school attended on student’s prior attainment.

Keywords: school lottery; segregation; school admissions reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12-31
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Working Paper: How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England (2012)
Working Paper: How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England (2012)
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