RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 More Harm than Good?
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 240
OP 277
DO 10.3368/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1
VO 55
IS 1
A1 Davezies, Laurent
A1 Garrouste, Manon
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/240.abstract
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.