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More Harm than Good? : Sorting Effects in a Compensatory Education Program

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  • Laurent Davezies

  • Manon Garrouste

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - ULCO - Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

By analyzing a French program that targeted low-achieving and socially disadvantaged junior high schools we provide evidence that school-based compensatory education policies create sorting effects. We use geocoded original data and a regression discontinuity framework to show that the program decreases the individual probability of attending a treated school and symmetrically increases the probability of attending a private school. The effects are driven by pupils from high socioeconomic backgrounds, resulting in an increase in social segregation across schools.

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  • Laurent Davezies & Manon Garrouste, 2020. "More Harm than Good? : Sorting Effects in a Compensatory Education Program," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) hal-02497066, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:hal-02497066
    DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1
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    1. Denis Anne, 2019. "Aides à la mobilité et insertion sociale," Erudite Ph.D Dissertations, Erudite, number ph19-03 edited by Yannick L'Horty, December.
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    7. Léonard Moulin, 2023. "Do private schools increase academic achievement? Evidence from France," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(2), pages 247-274, March.
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    10. Govind, Yajna & Melbourne, Jack & Signorelli, Sara & Zink, Edith, 2024. "The Making of a Ghetto Place-Based Policies, Labeling, and Impacts on Neighborhoods and Individuals," IZA Discussion Papers 17573, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models

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