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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

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dc.creator Webbink, Dinand
dc.creator Oosterbeek, Hessel
dc.creator Lindahl, Mikael
dc.creator Leuven, Edwin
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:10:11Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:10:11Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20357
dc.identifier ppn:386724970
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20357
dc.description 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.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1122
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J24
dc.subject I28
dc.subject I21
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject policy evaluation
dc.subject disadvantaged students
dc.subject computers
dc.subject teachers
dc.subject regression discontinuity
dc.subject Schulfinanzierung
dc.subject Bildungsniveau
dc.subject Bildungschancen
dc.subject Niederlande
dc.subject Benachteiligte
dc.title The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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