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| Title: | | The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement  |
| Authors: | | Webbink, Dinand Oosterbeek, Hessel Lindahl, Mikael Leuven, Edwin |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1122 |
| Abstract: | | This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra funding for computers and software. The cutoffs at 70 percent provide a regression discontinuity design which we exploit in a local difference-in-differences framework. For both subsidies we find negative point estimates. For the personnel subsidy these are in most cases not significantly different from zero. For the computer subsidy we find more evidence of negative effects. We discuss several explanations for these counterintuitive results. |
| Subjects: | | policy evaluation disadvantaged students computers teachers regression discontinuity |
| JEL: | | J24 I28 I21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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