Seminar

Seminar: Using admission lotteries to estimate heterogeneous effects of elite schools

Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 geeft Nienke Ruijs (Inspectie van het Onderwijs) een presentatie getiteld: 'Using admission lotteries to estimate heterogeneous effects of elite schools'

Datum
3 december 2019
Tijd
13:00 - 14:00
Locatie
CPB-kantoor, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, Den Haag (Vergaderzaal 3 - Braamzaal)
Presentatie
Nienke Ruijs (Inspectie van het Onderwijs)
Discussant
Lisette Swart (CPB)
Voertaal
Engels

Secondary-school students in Amsterdam who are placed in the highest academic track, can choose between comprehensive schools that offer multiple tracks and elite schools that exclusively offer the highest track and oblige students to take courses in the classical languages Latin and Greek. The elite schools are popular and therefore often oversubscribed. Assignment is based on admission lotteries, which we use to estimate causal effects. We find that elite schools have negative effects for some students and positive effects for others.