PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Davezies, Laurent
AU  - Garrouste, Manon
TI  - More Harm than Good? Sorting Effects in a Compensatory Education Program
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1
DP  - 2018 Jul 09
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0416-7839R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/07/03/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/07/03/jhr.55.1.0416-7839R1.full
AB  - We provide evidence that school-based compensatory education policies create sorting effects, by analyzing a French program, which targeted low-achieving and socially disadvantaged junior high schools. We use geocoded original data and a regression discontinuity framework to show that the program decreases the individual probability to attend a treated school and symmetrically increases the probability to attend a private school. The effects are driven by pupils from high socioeconomic backgrounds, resulting in an increase in social segregation across schools.