Title: Replication Data for: Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students

Type Dataset Behaghel, Luc, de Chaisemartin, Clément, Gurgand, Marc (2018): Replication Data for: Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LLTBEY

Authors: Behaghel, Luc (Paris School of Economics-Inra) ; de Chaisemartin, Clément (University of California, Santa Barbara) ; Gurgand, Marc (Paris School of Economics) ; Behaghel, Luc (Paris School of Economics-Inra) ; de Chaisemartin, Clément (University of California, Santa Barbara) ; Gurgand, Marc (Paris School of Economics) ;

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Summary

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. Boarders initially experience lower levels of well-being but then adjust. This suggests that substituting school to home is disruptive: only strong students benefit from the school, once they have adapted to their new environment.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/LLTBEY

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: June 26, 2018
• Updated: April 03, 2020

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Waiver

Format

electronic resource

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