Away from home,better at school. The case of a British boarding school |
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| Institution: | 1. National Institute of Economic and Social Research, UK;2. UCL Institute of Education, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UK;3. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Análisis Económico y Economía Cuantitativa, Spain;1. Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware and NBER, 419 Purnell Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA;2. Department of Economics, Wellesley College, USA;3. Department of Economics, Reed College, USA;1. Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States;2. NBER, Cambridge, MA, United States;3. IZA, Bonn, Germany;4. School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington DC, United States;5. Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States;1. Lund University, Department of Economics, Sweden;2. IZA, Germany;3. School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town, South Africa;1. Department of Ag. Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States;2. Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States;3. School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University;4. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we study whether substituting family inputs with school resources in an academically oriented environment has an impact on achievement in high-stakes national examinations. We use administrative data for England to estimate the effect of attending a selective boarding school that admits an unusually high share of pupils with low socio-economic status on attainment at the end of compulsory education. By using propensity score matching we obtain comparable control groups in selective non-boarding schools. Our main finding is that the probability of being in the top decile of achievement in the exams increases by about 18 percentage points compared to 59% for controls. |
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