Socioeconomic status or noise? Tradeoffs in the generation of school quality information |
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Authors: | Alejandra Mizala Pilar Romaguera Miguel Urquiola |
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Affiliation: | 1. Universidad de Chile, Chile;2. Columbia University, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper calculates a time series of simple, standard measures of schools' relative performance. These are drawn from a 1997–2004 panel of Chilean schools, using individual-level information on test scores and student characteristics for each year. The results suggest there is a stark tradeoff in the extent to which rankings generated using these measures: i) can be shown to be very similar to rankings based purely on students' socioeconomic status, and ii) are very volatile from year to year. At least in Chile, therefore, producing a meaningful ranking of schools that may inform parents and policymakers may be harder than is commonly assumed. |
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Keywords: | I2 O1 |
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