Estimating the returns to urban boarding schools
Subtitle: evidence from SEED
By: Vilsa E. Curto, Roland G. Fryer, Jr..
Contributors: Fryer, Jr. Roland G.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16746; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16746.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor.  We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through boarding is a cost-effective strategy to increase achievement among the poor.  Using admission lotteries, we show that attending a SEED school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of attendance.  Despite these relatively large impacts, the return on investment in SEED is less than five percent due to the substantial costs of boarding.  Similar "No Excuses'' charter schools -- without a boarding option -- have a return on investment of over eighteen percent"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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