Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Students
通过回归间断设计和精英磁石天才学校的随机抽签，评估天才项目对边缘学生成绩的影响，发现短期无显著改善或恶化，仅抽签获胜者在科学上表现更好。
We evaluate the impact of Gifted and Talented (GT) programs on students through a regression discontinuity (RD) design, and by analyzing a randomized lottery for elite magnet GT schools. We show that GT students in each analysis are exposed to higher achieving peers and, in the RD sample, a more advanced curriculum. We find that achievement for marginal students neither improves nor worsens from GT services in the short run. We also find that lottery winners only perform better in science. Using a bounding analysis we cannot rule out zero, though we do not find any significant negative effects.