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Replication Data for: Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students

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Title Replication Data for: Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LLTBEY
 
Creator Behaghel, Luc
de Chaisemartin, Clément
Gurgand, Marc
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Boarding schools substitute school to home, but little is known on the effects this substitution produces on students. We present results of an experiment in which seats in a boarding school for disadvantaged students were randomly allocated. Boarders enjoy better studying conditions than control students. However, they start outperforming control students in mathematics only two years after admission, and this effect mostly comes from strong students. Boarders initially experience lower levels of well-being but then adjust. This suggests that substituting school to home is disruptive: only strong students benefit from the school, once they have adapted to their new environment.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Parrado, Andres