The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the United Kingdom
利用英国1950年代出生者的数据，研究发现就读精英中学显著提高了受教育年限，但对劳动力市场结果影响有限，仅女性收入增加，同时显著降低了女性生育率。
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.