Foliani, Francesca;
Green, Francis;
Sartarelli, Marcello;
(2019)
Away from Home, Better at School. The Case of a British Boarding School.
Economics of Education Review
, 73
, Article 101911. 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101911.
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Abstract
In this paper we study whether substituting family inputs with school resources in an academically oriented environment has an impact on achievement in high-stakes national examinations. We use administrative data for England to estimate the effect of attending a selective boarding school that admits an unusually high share of pupils with low socio-economic status on attainment at the end of compulsory education. By using propensity score matching we obtain comparable control groups in selective non-boarding schools. Our main finding is that the probability of being in the top decile of achievement in the exams increases by about 18 percentage points compared to 59% for controls.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Away from Home, Better at School. The Case of a British Boarding School |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101911 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101911 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Ability, Achievement gap, Boarding, EducationGrammar schoolGCSEPrivate schoolSocio-economic statusSES |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078498 |
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