Nicoletti, Cheti orcid.org/0000-0002-7237-2597 and Rabe, Birgitta (2018) The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value-added models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). pp. 487-515. ISSN 1467-985X
Abstract
The estimation of education production models used to evaluate the effect of school inputs and past skills on test scores, often called value-added models, can be biased by three main econometric issues: unobserved child characteristics, unobserved family and school characteristics and measurement error. We propose a two-step estimation technique which exploits the availability of test scores across time, subjects, families and schools in a unique administrative data set for England to correct for these potential biases. Our empirical results suggest that omitting school characteristics biases the estimation of the effect of school expenditure, whereas omitting unobserved child endowment biases the estimation of the effect of past skills but not the effect of school expenditure.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. |
Keywords: | Education production function,School quality,Test scores |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC) EBAM301 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2017 11:15 |
Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12304 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/rssa.12304 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119874 |
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