The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education
The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education
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DOI：
10.1257/pol.20190603
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发表时间：
2021-11-01
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Heath, Katelyn
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作者：
Ballis, Briana;Heath, Katelyn
每年有超过13%的美国学生参加特殊教育（SE）项目，花费400亿美元。然而，由于选择问题，SE安置的影响尚不清楚。本文使用来自德克萨斯州的行政数据来检验减少SE访问的长期效果。我们的研究设计利用了由一项独特的州政策驱动的SE安置的变化，该政策要求学区将SE病例量减少到8.5%。这一政策导致东南大学入学人数急剧减少。这些减少导致了教育程度的显著降低，表明边缘参与者从社会服务中获得了长期利益。
Over 13 percent of US students participate in special education (SE) programs annually, at a cost of $40 billion. However, due to selection issues the effect of SE placements remains unclear. This paper uses administrative data from Texas to examine the long-run effect of reducing SE access. Our research design exploits variation in SE placement driven by a unique state policy that required school districts to reduce SE caseloads to 8.5 percent. This policy led to sharp reductions in SE enrollment. These reductions generated significant reductions in educational attainment, suggesting that marginal participants experience long-run benefits from SE services.