Are Measured School Effects Just Sorting? Causality and Correlation in the National Education Longitudinal Survey

Topics:
Regulations
Tags:
Correlation,
Education,
University Of Southern California
Source:
University of Southern California

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Overview: Youths who share a school and neighborhood often have similar academic achievement, but some studies find all or most of this apparent effect is due to sorting, not to the neighborhood itself. This paper presents a collage of evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) indicating that a significant fraction of the apparent correlation is causal, rather than solely due to sorting.

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Format: PDF | Size: 681KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 45

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