Does attending a STEM high school improve student performance? Evidence from New York City |
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Institution: | 1. Nuh Mehmet Baldoktu Anatolian High School, Kayseri, Turkey;2. Department of Science Education, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey;1. Wake Forest University, Department of Economics, Box 7505, Winston Salem, NC 27109, United States;2. Purdue University, School of Engineering Education, 701 West Stadium Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States;1. The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Ny Kongensgade 6, 1472 Copenhagen, Denmark;2. The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, 1052 Copenhagen, Denmark;3. The Danish Evaluation Institute, Østbanegade 55, 3. sal, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark |
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Abstract: | We investigate the role of specialized science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) high schools in New York City (NYC) in promoting performance in science and mathematics and in closing the gender and race gaps in STEM subjects. Using administrative data covering several recent cohorts of public school students and a rich variety of high schools including over 30 STEMs, we estimate the effect of attending a STEM high school on a variety of student outcomes, including test taking and performance on specialized science and mathematics examinations. While comparisons of means indicate an advantage to attending a STEM school, more thorough analysis conditioning on a rich set of covariates, including previous grade test performance, reduces or eliminates this advantage. Females and males in STEMs do better than their counterparts in Non-STEMs, but the gender gap is also larger in these schools. We also find that the black-white and Hispanic-white gaps are smaller in STEM relative to Non-STEM schools across almost all outcomes, but the Asian-white gap, in contrast, is larger in STEMs relative to Non-STEMs. |
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Keywords: | STEM School choice High school performance Women in science Gender gap |
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