کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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969259 | 1479466 | 2012 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago, students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and estimate the causal effect of attending a single-sex school versus a similar coeducational school. While females with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools have better 10th grade exam performance due to attending single-sex schools between grades 6 and10, most students perform no better at single-sex schools. Girls at single-sex-schools take fewer sciences courses.
► This is the first study to credibly identify the causal effect of single-sex schools on student outcomes.
► Single-sex schools have no effect on over 85% of students.
► Single-sex schools have large positive effects only on students with strong preferences for single-sex schools.
► Some girls benefit from single-sex schools but boys do not.
► Girls at single-sex schools take fewer math and science courses.
Journal: Journal of Public Economics - Volume 96, Issues 1–2, February 2012, Pages 173–187