Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
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私立学校学券和学生成绩：密尔沃基家长选择计划的评估
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10.1162/003355398555685
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1997
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C. Rouse
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C. Rouse
1990年，威斯康星州成为美国第一个向低收入家庭的学生提供就读非教派私立学校的代金券的州。在本文中，我使用了各种估计策略和样本来估计该计划对数学和阅读成绩的影响。首先，由于学校在超额报名的情况下从申请者中随机选择学生，我比较了被选中学生和未被选中学生的学业成绩。第二，我提出了工具变量估计的私立学校（相对于公立学校）的有效性，使用初始选择作为一个工具变量出席私立学校。最后，我使用固定效应策略来比较私立学校的学生和密尔沃基公立学校的学生样本。我发现密尔沃基家长选择计划似乎对那些上私立学校的人的数学成绩有积极的影响;但对阅读成绩没有好处。我发现结果对于数据插补和样本损耗来说相当稳健，但在解释结果时应牢记这些局限性。
In 1990, Wisconsin became the first state in the country to provide vouchers to low income students to attend non-sectarian private schools. In this paper, I use a variety of estimation strategies and samples to estimate the effect of the program on math and reading scores. First, since schools selected students randomly from among their applicants if the school was oversubscribed, I compare the academic achievement of students who were selected to those who were not selected. Second, I present instrumental variables estimates of the effectiveness of private schools (relative to public schools) using the initial selection as an instrumental variable for attendance at a private school. Finally, I used a fixed-effects strategy to compare students enrolled in the private schools to a sample of students from the Milwaukee public schools. I find that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program appears to have had a positive effect on the math achievement of those who attended a private school; but had no benefits for reading scores. I have found the results to be fairly robust to data imputations and sample attrition, however these limitations should be kept in mind when interpreting the results.