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Who Benefits From Attending Effective High Schools?

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  • C. Kirabo Jackson
  • Shanette C. Porter
  • John Q. Easton
  • Sebastián Kiguel

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We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development, and behaviors in 9th grade) for students who are more versus less educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years of education based on 8th-grade characteristics). All students benefit from attending effective schools, but the least advantaged students experience larger improvements in high-school graduation, college going, and school-based arrests. This heterogeneity is not solely due to less-advantaged groups being marginal for particular outcomes. Commonly used test-score value-added understates the long-run importance of effective schools, particularly for less-advantaged populations. Patterns suggest this partly reflects less-advantaged students being relatively more responsive to non-test-score dimensions of school quality.

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  • C. Kirabo Jackson & Shanette C. Porter & John Q. Easton & Sebastián Kiguel, 2020. "Who Benefits From Attending Effective High Schools?," NBER Working Papers 28194, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28194
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    JEL classification:

    • H0 - Public Economics - - General
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General

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