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Dressed for success : Do SchoolUniforms Improve Student Behavior,Attendance, and achievement ?Elisabetta Gentile1 university of HoustonScott A. Imberman1 university of HoustonMarch 4, 2009 Abstract:Concerns about safety in urban schools has led many School districts to requireuniforms for their students. However, we know very little about what impact School uniformshave had on the educational environment. In this paper we use a unique dataset to assesshow uniform adoption affects Student achievement and behavior in a large urban schooldistrict int the southwest. Since each School in the district could decide independently aboutwhether or not to adopt Uniforms , we are able to use variation across schools and overtime to identify the effects of Uniforms . Using Student and School fixed-effects along withschool-specific linear time trends to address selection of students and schools into uniformadoption, we find that Uniforms had little impact on Student outcomes in elementary gradesbut provided modest improvements in language scores and attendance rates in middle andhigh School grades.

Dressed for Success: Do School Uniforms Improve Student Behavior, Attendance, and Achievement? Elisabetta Gentile1 University of Houston Scott A. Imberman1 University of Houston March 4, 2009 Abstract: Concerns about safety in urban schools has led many school districts to require uniforms for their students.

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