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Effects of High-Achieving Peers: Findings from a National High School Assignment System

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  • Ahmet Alkan
  • Sinan Sarpça

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Recent studies of elite exam schools in the United States have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The education system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools on the basis of a high-stakes national examination. By use of an exceptional database for Turkey not heretofore available, we conduct regression discontinuity analysis exploiting score discontinuities between more than 200 exam schools. We find that attending more selective exam schools yields large achievement gains and improved university placements for high-achieving students.

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  • Ahmet Alkan & Sinan Sarpça, 2025. "Effects of High-Achieving Peers: Findings from a National High School Assignment System," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 19(4), pages 743-767.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/735102
    DOI: 10.1086/735102
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