Replication data for: School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) David Autor; David Figlio; Krzysztof Karbownik; Jeffrey Roth; Melanie Wasserman

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Project Citation:

Autor, David, Figlio, David, Karbownik, Krzysztof, Roth, Jeffrey, and Wasserman, Melanie. Replication data for: School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113467V1

Project Description

Summary: Recent evidence indicates that boys and girls are differently affected by the quantity and quality of family inputs received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting opposite-sex siblings who attend the same sets of schools--thereby purging family heterogeneity--and leveraging within-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we find that boys benefit more than girls from cumulative exposure to higher quality schools.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I24 Education and Inequality
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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