Article
Does attending a selective secondary school improve student performance? Evidence from the Bicentenario schools in Chile
Fecha
2019Registro en:
School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 31:3, 426-444
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2019.1697299
Autor
Araya, Pablo
Dussaillant, Francisca
Institución
Resumen
We investigate the effect of attending selective secondary schools belonging to the Bicentenario schools program in Chile, a free education option that is intended to give vulnerable students everywhere in Chile a unique educational opportunity, in the period from 2011 to 2014. By using propensity score methods, we find that attending a Bicentenario school improves students’ performance by a range of 0.35 to 0.23 SD in language and 0.5 to 0.35 SD in math. Also, we show that a proportion of this effect is due to the outstanding performance of the new Bicentenario schools as opposed to the restructured version of the program. We prove the robustness of the previous results through falsification, changes-in-changes, and a more demanding control group. This paper adds new evidence to analyze the effect of selective schools in developing countries like Chile, where the quality of public education is low.
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