10. It is common for states to assign ratings to elementary, middle and high sch
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10. It is common for states to assign ratings to elementary, middle and high schools based on standardized test score performance. Suppose the system that assigns ratings is determined by the school's average performance on a standardized test which is scored from 0 to 100. Schools that have an average score of 70 or above receive a PASS, while schools with an average score below 70 receive a FAIL A researcher is evaluating whether families are influenced by the ratings that schools receive when choosing where to send their children to school. Specifically, the researcher wants to find out if the receipt of a FAIL rating causes a school's students to be more likely to leave to go to another school. The proportion of students at each school that leave to go to a different school is called the transfer rate First, she estimates the effect of getting a FAIL rating on the transfer rate as the difference between the mean transfer rate at schools that PASS and the mean transfer rate at schools that FAIL. Would this approach produce an unbiased estimate of the effect of failing? Explain. a. b. Next, she takes advantage of the way the system assigns ratings. She decides to estimate the effect of getting a FAIL using an RD on schools within a bandwidth of+/-1 point of the cut-off. What is the name of this approach? How does this approach differ fronm the approach in part (b) in its ability to produce an unbiased estimate of the causal effect of failing on the likelihood that students reenroll? Would you expect a more or less precise estimate if the bandwidth in part (b) were increased to +/- 2 points from the cut-off? Explain. c.Explanation / Answer
a. In my opinion it will not produce any unbiased estimating of failing as the perimeter used by the research is good and from that it will find the transfer rate i.e. the pass rate and the fail rate and from this it is easy to calculate that in which school a child should go so that it doesn't effect to there parents and also the rating of school doesn't effect from it.
b. Here the approach used is an integrative approach as it will check from each and every school. This approach is differ from the above as the above approach is based on the rating of the school and only rating doesn't matter to it if the school is good you cannot esitmate or predict that it will be beneficial for our child or not.
c. Yes, bandwith in part to increased or decrease it totally depend upon the researcher as what she reserarch from school to school as it should be precise for estimating the cut-off. Also she consider the certain perimeters so that it will be beneficial for the students to go that school if they think of it.
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