Do Students Benefit from Attending Better Schools? Evidence from Rule‐based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
利用特立尼达和多巴哥基于成绩的中学分配机制中的断点，发现就读更好学校能显著提高学生毕业考试成绩，且对女生效果是男生的两倍。
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after the fifth grade, based on achievement tests, leading to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing initial levels of achievement are exposed. I use instrumental variables based on the discontinuities created by the assignment mechanism and exploit rich data which include students' test scores at entry and secondary school preferences to address self-selection bias. I find that attending a better school has large positive effects on examination performance at the end of secondary school. The effects are about twice as large for girls than for boys. Copyright (C) The Author(s). Journal compilation (C) Royal Economic Society 2010.