Does tackling poverty related barriers to education improve school outcomes? Evidence from the North East of England.
研究英格兰东北部一项减少贫困污名化、促进教育公平的项目，发现其能提升贫困儿童及全体学生的学业成绩，尤其是数学和英语阅读。
Poverty related barriers to education perpetuate inequalities in educational attainment which lead to inequalities in income, health, and happiness in later life. While schools cannot tackle poverty directly, they can implement policies that tackle the stigma of poverty and ensure that the school day is more equitable. This study estimates the effect of a programme delivered to schools in North East England that is designed to remove barriers to education by reducing the stigma of poverty which impacts pupils’ educational attainment and school absences. Since the roll-out of the programme was staggered, we apply the Callaway–Sant'Anna time-varying-treatment difference-in-differences approach. The results show that tackling the obstacles to learning that arise from children being in poverty can improve their educational attainment and the attainment for all children, particularly in math and English reading.