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Civitas Outlook
Aug 7, 2014
Scott Carrell
Mark Hoekstra
A student being helped by a school counselor generated by ChatGPT (Open AI, 01/31/2025)
Are School Counselors an Effective Education Input?
Summary
By helping even a few children in the classroom, school counselors could potentially induce widespread academic gains.
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We exploit within-school variation in counselors and find that one additional counselor reduces student misbehavior and increases boys’ academic achievement by over one percentile point. These effects compare favorably with those of increased teacher quality and smaller class sizes.
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This paper was originally published by Economic Letters
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