The Potential of Urban Boarding Schools for the Poor: Evidence from SEED

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Curto, Vilsa E.; Fryer, Roland G., Jr.
• 署名单位: Stanford University; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/671798
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 65-93
• 关键词: student-achievement evidence; american adolescents; incentives; education; teachers; drinking; dropouts; english; HEALTH; FAMILY

摘要

The SEED schools, which combine a No Excuses charter model with a 5-day-a-week boarding program, are America''s only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student''s environment is an effective strategy to increase achievement among the poor. Using admission lotteries, we show that attending a SEED school increases achievement by 0.211 standard deviation in reading and 0.229 standard deviation in math per year. However, subgroup analyses show that the effects may be driven by female students.