Long-Term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Laliberte, Jean-William
• 署名单位: University of Calgary
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20190257
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 336-377
• 关键词: impacts; QUALITY; achievement; opportunity; EVOLUTION; CHOICE; matter; segregation; preferences; EFFICIENCY

摘要

This paper estimates the long-term impact of growing up in better neighborhoods and attending better schools on educational attainment. First, I use a spatial regression-discontinuity design to estimate school effects. Second, I study students who move across neighborhoods in Montreal during childhood to estimate the causal effect of growing up in a better area (total exposure effects). I find large effects for both dimensions. Combining both research designs in a decomposition framework, and under key assumptions, I estimate that 50-70 percent of the benefits of moving to a better area on educational attainment are due to access to better schools.