29.057 - Improving Life Chances of Poor Children: Experimental Evidence From Chicago

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Despite the growing importance of schooling attainment and achievement for labor market success, high school graduation rates have not changed much over the past 40 years and inequality in achievement test scores by income seems to have increased.This session presents the results of a portfolio of randomized experiments from the city of Chicago that address different intervention strategies related to educational challenges such as truancy, disparities in achievement test scores, and dropout, targeted at different stages of the child's life course and to students at different predicted risks of school failure. Wherever possible we try to use consistent benefit-cost methods to help inform policy decisions about the most effective and efficient possible ways to allocate resources.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics

Chair

• Daphna Bassok, University of Virginia

Speakers

• Amy Claessens, University of Chicago

• Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago

• Sara Heller, The University of Pennsylvania

• Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago