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

报告人：马光荣

时间：2017年5月12日下午3:30-5:00

地点：经济学院(中惠楼) 102室

报告人简介

马光荣，现任中国人民大学财政金融学院副教授，2013年博士毕业于北京大学国家发展研究院，2008年本科毕业于东南大学，2011年在美国杜克大学任访问学者。曾在American Economic Review、Journal of Comparative Economics、《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》等中英文期刊上发表30余篇论文，主持国家自然科学基金、北京市社会科学基金等多项研究课题，获得洪银兴经济学奖、邓子基财经学术奖、教育部高等学校优秀成果奖等。

Abstract:

    This paper investigate the effect of class tracking on educational outcomes in higher education. A regression discontinuity design establishes evidence that there is no overall benefit for marginal students assigned to the high achieving track. Exploiting unique features of our data set, we are able to separate the components of the overall effect and show that longer instruction time significantly benefits a student, implying that exposure to less achieving peers produces negative influence. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications as well as alternative measure of educational outcomes. We find little evidence of heterogeneity in the effect of class tracking.