ABSTRACT

This paper is offering a new identification strategy in order to estimate the effect of education resources on students’ achievements at the municipal level. We use the appointment of an external accountant to financially distressed municipalities in Israel as an instrumental variable for independent education expenditures, and control for selection bias. We find that the decline in independent education expenditures per capita in Arab municipalities did not affect the share of matriculation certification recipients. This result suggests that changes in municipal education resources might not affect students’ achievements, at least in less-developed municipalities.

中文翻译：

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教育资源和学生表现：来自以色列阿拉伯城市的证据

摘要

本文提供了一种新的识别策略，以估计教育资源对市级学生成绩的影响。我们使用任命外部会计师到以色列财政困难的城市作为独立教育支出的工具变量，并控制选择偏差。我们发现阿拉伯城市人均独立教育支出的下降并未影响预科证书获得者的份额。这一结果表明，市政教育资源的变化可能不会影响学生的成绩，至少在欠发达的城市是这样。