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Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects

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  • Francis Kramarz
  • Stephen Machin
  • Amine Ouazad

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type="main" xml:id="obes12076-abs-0001"> Education production functions that feature school and student fixed effects are identified using students' school mobility. However, student mobility is driven by factors like parents' labour market shocks and divorce. Movers experience large achievement drops, are more often minority and free meal students, and sort endogenously into peer groups and school types. We exploit an English institutional feature whereby some students must change schools between grades 2 and 3. We find no evidence of endogenous sorting of such compulsory movers across peer groups or school types. Non-compulsory movers bias school quality estimates downward by as much as 20% of a SD.

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  • Francis Kramarz & Stephen Machin & Amine Ouazad, 2015. "Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 77(4), pages 566-587, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:77:y:2015:i:4:p:566-587
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    1. John M. Abowd & Kevin McKinney & Ian M. Schmutte, 2015. "Modeling Endogenous Mobility in Wage Determiniation," Working Papers 15-18, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
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    3. Chris Ryan, 2017. "Measurement of Peer Effects," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 50(1), pages 121-129, March.
    4. Ivan Badinski & Amy Finkelstein & Matthew Gentzkow & Peter Hull, 2023. "Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians," NBER Working Papers 31749, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Ryan Yeung & Phuong Nguyen-Hoang, 2016. "Endogenous peer effects: Fact or fiction?," The Journal of Educational Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 109(1), pages 37-49, January.
    6. Jose De Sousa, "undated". "Peer competition: Evidence from 5- to 95-year-olds," French Stata Users' Group Meetings 2022 03, Stata Users Group.
    7. Alexandra de Gendre & Nicolás Salamanca, 2020. "On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2020n19, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    8. Asma Benhenda, 2018. "Teacher Screening, On the Job Evaluations and Performancee," DoQSS Working Papers 18-06, Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.

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