nep-spo 2012-01-10 papers

on Sports and Economics

Issue of 2012‒01‒10
one paper chosen by
Joao Carlos Correia Leitao
University of Beira Interior and Technical University of Lisbon

Student effort and educatinal attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function By Robert Metcalfe; Simon Burgess; Steven Proud

Student effort and educatinal attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function

By:	Robert Metcalfe; Simon Burgess; Steven Proud
Abstract:	We use a sharp, exogenous and repeated change in the value of leisure to identify the impact of student effort on educational achievement. The treatment arises from the partial overlap of the world’s major international football tournaments with the exam period in England. Our data enable a clean difference-in-difference design. Performance is measured using the high-stakes tests that all students take at the end of compulsory schooling. We find a strongly significant effect: the average impact of a fall in effort is 0.12 SDs of student performance, significantly larger for male and disadvantaged students, as high as many educational policies.
Keywords:	Student effort, Educational achievement, Schools
JEL:	I20 J24
Date:	2011
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oxf:wpaper:586&r=spo

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