With a little help from my friends: Medium-Term effects of a remedial education program targeting Roma minority

• The Roma Teaching Assistant is a remedial education program with the assistant and treated students belonging to same minority. In medium-term, it has modest but positive effects on educational attainments. choose longer secondary tracks needed enter higher education. There are spillovers for Non-Roma students. teaching reference point community can act as role model. A poor-performing student achieve better results by following footprints of an older friend. this paper, we study that takes advantage phenomenon. Introduced in Serbian primary schools 2009, Program targets underachieving It assigns one person, usually Roma, each school participating provide support targeted pupils create bridge their community. We estimate its medium-term attainments at end comparing applied, were not selected, before after introduction program. impacts marks standardized test scores modest, although bigger lower percentage Roma. are, however, more likely tracks, requirement entering