The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the United Kingdom

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Essex
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20130505
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 150-176
• 关键词: education; students

摘要

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income, and fertility. Our data consist of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using instrumental variables methods that exploit the school assignment formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. Surprisingly, there are no significant effects on most labor market outcomes except for an increase in female income. By contrast, we document a large and significant negative impact on female fertility.