Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay off after All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes and Inter-Generational Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 25332

Autor/inn/en	Lavy, Victor; Kott, Assaf; Rachkovski, Genia
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay off after All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes and Inter-Generational Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 25332
Quelle	(2018) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w25332
Schlagwörter	Remedial Instruction; Outcomes of Education; High School Students; College Students; Labor Market; Employment Patterns; Low Achievement; Achievement Gains; Cost Effectiveness; Social Mobility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Förderkurs; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Collegestudent; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Soziale Mobilität
Abstract	We analyze in this paper the long term effect of a high school remedial education program, almost two decades after its implementation. We combine high school records with National Social Security administrative data to examine longer-term outcomes when students were in their early 30s. Our evidence suggest that treated students experienced a 10 percentage points increase in completed years of college schooling, an increase in annual earnings of 4 percentage points, an increase of 1.5 percentage points in months employed, and a significant increase in intergenerational income mobility. These gains are reflecting mainly improvement in outcomes of students from below median income families. Therefore, we conclude that remedial education program that targeted underachieving students in their last year of high school had gains that went much beyond the short term significant improvements in high school matriculation exams. A cost benefit analysis of the program suggests that the government will recover its cost within 7-8 years, implying a very high rate of return to this remedial education program. (As Provided).
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