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Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade Repetition, Educational Policy, Siblings
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; Özek, Umut; Sapienza, Paola – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Immigrants, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
David Figlio; Paola Giuliano; Riccardo Marchingiglio; Umut Özek; Paola Sapienza – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to…
Descriptors: Birth, Geographic Location, Outcomes of Education, Youth