There is renewed interest in ways to enhance secondary education, especially among disadvantaged students. This study evaluates the short-term effects of a remedial-education program that provided additional instruction to under-performing high-school students in Israel. The program targeted 10th tw...

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Main Authors:	Lavy, Victor 1949- (Author), Schlosser, Analia 1974- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2004
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 10575
Subjects:	1999-2000 High school teaching - Israel Remedial teaching - Israel Teenagers - Education - Israel Allgemeinbildende Schule / Schulpolitik / Schüler / Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse / Israel
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	There is renewed interest in ways to enhance secondary education, especially among disadvantaged students. This study evaluates the short-term effects of a remedial-education program that provided additional instruction to under-performing high-school students in Israel. The program targeted 10th twelfth graders who needed additional help to pass the matriculation exams. Using a comparison group of schools that enrolled in the program later and implementing a differences-in-differences estimation strategy, we found that the program raised the school mean matriculation rate by 3.3 percentage points. This gain reflects mainly an effect on targeted participants and the absence of externalities on their untreated peers. The program was found to be less cost-effective than two alternative interventions based on incentives for teachers and students.
Physical Description:	28, [15] S. graph. Darst.