Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students'

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Behaghel, Luc; de Chaisemartin, Clement; Gurgand, Marc
• 署名单位: Paris School of Economics; INRAE; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Paris School of Economics; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150090
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 140-164
• 关键词: poor evidence; exam schools; achievement; education; QUALITY; boston; IMPACT; kenya

摘要

Boarding schools substitute school to home, but little is known on effects this substitution produces on students. We present results of an experiment in which seats in a boarding school for disadvantaged students were randomly allocated. Boarders enjoy better studying conditions than control students. However, they start outperforming control students in mathematics only two years after admission, and this effect mostly comes from strong students. Boarders initially experience lower levels of well-being but then adjust. This suggests that substituting school to home is disruptive: only strong students benefit from the school, once they have adapted to their new environment.