Selective Schools and Academic Achievement

By Damon Clark. 2007

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Earnings Returns to the British Education Expansion. (2011, unknown): “Also see Clark (2010) for an RD design that is similar to that considered here.”
Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, unknown): “In this light, the lack of consensus on the positive effects from attending such schools may not be surprising (Angrist & Lang, 2004; Clark, 2010; Cullen et al., 2006; Kling et al., 2007; Abdulkadiroglu et al., 2014).”
The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice (2017, unknown): “For instance, whereas Jackson (2010) and Pop- Echeles and Urquiola (2011) …nd that attending better schools improves children’s academic achievement, Clark (2010) and Abdulkadiroglu, Angrist and Pathak (2011) …nd no evidence that elite schools improve standardized test scores.”
The Performance and Competitive Effects of School Autonomy (2009, background): “In the U.K. context, Clark (2007) finds that students admitted to selective high schools score no better than students admitted to nonselective high schools.”
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools (2011, background): “On the other hand, Clarke (2008) finds only modest score gains at selective UK schools. Likewise, using admissions lotteries to analyze the consequences of selective middle school attendance in China, Zhang (2010) finds no achievement gains for students randomly offered seats at a selective school. ”
Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya (2014, result): “In contrast, a number of other studies such as Abdulkadiroglu, Angrist, and Pathak (2011), Bui, Craig, and Imberman (2011), Clark (2010), de Hoop (2010), Fryer and Dobbie (2011), and Sekhri and Rubinstein (2010) did not find any evidence of such schooling improving learning 3Quality includes all…”