TY - JOUR AU1 - Papay, John P. AU2 - Murnane, Richard J. AU3 - Willett, John B. AB -

Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future educational-investment decisions is not well understood. Increasingly, results from state-mandated standardized tests are an important source of information. Students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance on these tests. 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. These findings are important not only for understanding students’ educational-investment decisions and the consequences of state testing practices but also for researchers using the regression-discontinuity design.

TI - The Impact of Test Score Labels on Human-Capital Investment Decisions JF - Journal of Human Resources DA - 2016-04-21 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-wisconsin-press/the-impact-of-test-score-labels-on-human-capital-investment-decisions-Xti9Mhu83e SP - 357 EP - 388 VL - 51 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve