题目：Class tracks and education outcomes: Evidence from a Chinese university

主讲人： 马光荣 中国人民大学财政金融学院

讲座时间：2016年11月30日 下午14:00-16:00

讲座地点：学院南路主教107

主讲人简介：马光荣，中国人民大学财政金融学院副教授。研究领域为公共经济学和发展经济学，研究成果见于《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》、Journal of Comparative Economics、Review of Income and Wealth、China Economic Review等中英文期刊，获得洪银兴经济学奖、邓子基财经奖等。

文章概要：This paper investigatethe effect of class tracking on educational outcomes in higher education. Aregression discontinuity design establishes evidence that there is no overall benefitfor marginal students assigned to the high achieving track. Exploiting unique featuresof our data set, we are able to separate the components of the overall effect andshow that longer instruction time significantly benefits a student, implyingthat exposure to less achieving peers produces negative influence. We also showthat class tracking does not damage the self-esteem of the low achievingstudents. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications as well asalternative measure of educational outcomes. We find little evidence ofheterogeneity in the effect of class tracking.