1. Away from home, better at school. The case of a British boarding school.
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Foliano, Francesca, Green, Francis, and Sartarelli, Marcello
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BOARDING schools , *NATIONAL competency-based educational tests , *PROPENSITY score matching , *COMPULSORY education , *SCHOOLS - 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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