Agenda

17 Gen 2019 12:30

Annalisa Loviglio - Schools and Their Multiple Ways to Impact Students

Meeting Room 1, Campus San Giobbe, Venezia

Annalisa Loviglio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Titolo completo: Schools and Their Multiple Ways to Impact Students: a Structural Model of Skill Accumulation and Educational Choices

 

ABSTRACT
This paper studies how the school environment affects students’ cognitive skills and educational attainment. I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation and schooling decisions of students enrolled in lower secondary education, using rich administrative data for the universe of public schools in Barcelona. Its key feature is that it allows me to separately identify the different channels through which schools affect student outcomes. I find large variation across schools both in their effect on cognitive skills development, and in their effects on students’ educational choices above and beyond their level of cognitive skills. School environment is particularly relevant for choices of students with disadvantaged family background. Moreover their probabilities of graduating or enrolling in upper secondary education if they attend a given middle school have limited correlation with their expected performance in that school. Results suggest that evaluating and comparing schools using only nation-wide assessments may not favor disadvantaged students, who particularly benefit from schools which increase educational attainment, not only test scores.

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in italiano

Organizzatore

Dipartimento di Economia (JMSeminars)

Link

https://sites.google.com/view/annalisaloviglio

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