PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Laurent Davezies
AU  - Manon Garrouste
TI  - More Harm than Good?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 240--277
VI  - 55
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/240.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/240.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2020 Jan 01; 55
AB  - 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.