Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296075 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10986
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Public policies targeting individuals based on need often impose disproportionate burden on communities that lack the resources to implement these policies effectively. In an elementary school setting, I examine whether community-level interventions focusing on similar needs and providing resources to build capacity in these communities could improve outcomes by improving the effectiveness of individual-level interventions. I find that the extended school day policy that targets lowest-performing schools in reading in Florida significantly improved the effectiveness of the third-grade retention policy in these schools. These complementarities were large enough to close the gap in retention effects between targeted and higher-performing schools.
Subjects: 
educational interventions
complementarities
disadvanted communities
JEL: 
I20
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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