Single-sex schools, student achievement, and course selection
Subtitle: evidence from rule-based student assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
By: C. Kirabo Jackson
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16817; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16817.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases due to student selection to schools and single-sex schools being better in unmeasured ways.  In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and cleanly estimate an upper-bound single-sex school effect.The upper-bound effects show that while students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools may benefit from attending them, most students perform no better at single sex schools.  I show that the treatment effect for the typical single-sex student differs greatly from that of the average student.  Girls at single-sex-schools take fewer sciences courses and more traditionally female subjects"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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