Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282482 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10794
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Recent studies of US elite exam schools have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools based on a high-stakes national examination. Utilizing an exceptional database for Turkey not heretofore available, we conduct regression discontinuity analysis exploiting score discontinuities between more than 200 exam schools. We find that attending more selective exam schools yields large achievement gains and improved university placements for high achieving students.
Subjects: 
peer effects
value added
test scores
selective schools
student outcomes
JEL: 
I21
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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