TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lavy,Victor
AU  - Schlosser,Analia
TI  - Targeted Remedial Education for Under-Performing Teenagers: Costs and Benefits
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10575
PY  - 2004
Y2  - June 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10575
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10575.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Victor Lavy
Department of Economics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL
Tel: 972-2-5883245
E-Mail: msvictor@mscc.huji.ac.il

Analia Schlosser
The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Tel Aviv University
P.O.B. 39040
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978
ISRAEL
Tel: +972-3-6409064
Fax: +972-3-6409908
E-Mail: analias@post.tau.ac.il
AB  - 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.
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