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How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes / John P. Papay, Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Papay, John P.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17120.
- NBER working paper series no. w17120
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future educational-investment decisions is not well understood. Increasingly common sources of information are state-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we find persistent effects of earning a more positive label on the college-going decisions of urban, low-income students. Consistent with a Bayesian-updating model, these effects are concentrated among students with weaker priors, specifically those who report before taking the test that they do not plan to attend a four-year college.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2011.
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