The long-term health effects of attending a selective school: a natural experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Education is widely associated with better physical and mental health, but isolating its causal effect is difficult because education is linked with many socioeconomic advantages. One way to isolate education's effect is to consider environments where similar students are assigned to different educational experiences based on objective criteria. Here we measure the health effects of assignment to selective schooling based on test score, a widely debated educational policy.

Methods

In 1960s Britain, children were assigned to secondary schools via a test taken at age 11. We used regression discontinuity analysis to measure health differences in 5039 people who were separated into selective and non-selective schools this way. We measured selective schooling's effect

SUBMITTER: Butler J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7118818 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature