TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Booij, Adam S.
AU  - Haan, Ferry
AU  - Plug, Erik
        TI  - Enriching Students Pays Off: Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education
        PY  - 2016/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9757
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9757
        AB  - We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on a cutoff score in a cognitive aptitude test, which we exploit in a fuzzy regression discontinuity framework to identify program effects. We find that assigned students obtain higher grades, follow a more science intensive curriculum (most notably for girls), and report stronger beliefs about their academic abilities. We also find that these positive effects persist in university, where students choose more challenging fields of study with, on average, higher returns. Together, these findings are consistent with a human capital interpretation.
        KW  - gifted and talented education
KW  - enrichment program
KW  - secondary education
KW  - regression discontinuity
        ER  -