New Schools and New Classmates. The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment.

Autor/inn/en	Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; Liebowitz, David D.; Page, Lindsay C.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	New Schools and New Classmates. The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 89 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30085
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30085
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsniveau; Bildungspolitik; Schulpolitik; Allgemein bildende Schule; Schüler; Regierungspolitik; Bildungsinvestition; Arbeitspapier; USA
Abstract	Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast, increasing the achievement levels of students' peers improves students' math and ELA test scores but harms their ELA course grades. Test score benefits accrue primarily to students from higher-income families, though students with lower family income or lower prior performance still benefit. Our results suggest that student assignment policies that relocate students to avoid the over-concentration of lower-achieving students or those from lower-income families can accomplish equity goals (despite important caveats), although these reassignments may reduce achievement for students from higher- income backgrounds.
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Update	2023/1