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Ready for boarding? : the effects of a boarding school for disadvantaged students [pre-print]
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Behaghel, Luc, Chaisemartin, Clément de and Gurgand, Marc (2015) Ready for boarding? : the effects of a boarding school for disadvantaged students [pre-print]. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (TWERPS), 2015 (1059). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Boarding schools substitute school to home, but little is known on the effects this substitution produces on students. We present results of an experiment in which seats in a boarding school for disadvantaged students were randomly allocated. Boarders enjoy better studying conditions than control students. However, they start outperforming control students in mathematics only two years after admission, and this effect mostly comes from strong students. After one year, levels of well-being are lower among boarders, but in their second year, students adjust: well-being catches-up. This suggests that substituting school to home is disruptive: only strong students benefit from the boarding school, once they have managed to adapt to their new environment.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Boarding school students, Academic achievement, People with social disabilities | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (TWERPS) | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | January 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 2015 | ||||
Number: | 1059 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 47 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 | ||||
Funder: | Fonds d'expérimentation pour la jeunesse [Experimental Fund for Youth] (FEJ) |
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