The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program On Student Achievement after Two Years

Mills, Jonathan N.; Wolf, Patrick J.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2738805

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“…A first indication regarding persistence of negative effects of the LSP emerges from work by Mills and Wolf (2016). These authors use a slightly larger sample of LSP students, and are able to expand the analysis to a second year.…”

Section: The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature

Epple

Romano

Urquiola

2017

Journal of Economic Literature

140

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We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. Our assessment is that the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant recommending that vouchers be adopted on a widespread basis; however, multiple positive findings support continued exploration. Specifically, the empirical research on small-scale programs does not suggest that awarding students a voucher is a systematically reliable way to improve educational outcomes, and some detrimental effects have been found. Nevertheless, in some settings, or for some subgroups or outcomes, vouchers can have a substantial positive effect on those who use them. Studies of large-scale voucher programs find student sorting as a result of their implementation, although of varying magnitude. Evidence on both small-scale and large-scale programs suggests that competition induced by vouchers leads public schools to improve. Moreover, research is making progress on understanding how vouchers may be designed to limit adverse effects from sorting, while preserving positive effects related to competition. Finally, our sense is that work originating in a single case (e.g., a given country) or in a single research approach (e.g., experimental designs) will not provide a full understanding of voucher effects; fairly wide-ranging empirical and theoretical work will be necessary to make progress. (JEL H52, H75, I21, I22, I28, O15)

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Section: The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature

Epple

Romano

Urquiola

2017

Journal of Economic Literature

140

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“…The course is based on the entire course (except for the individual and second class), the average score of the first test, and one or more of the courses Students who pass the make-up can not report the outstanding scholarships of the year. [6] The percentage of students who received scholarships was 20.95% higher than that of non-student members. It indicates that student members would learn as an important task and have a strong vanguard and exemplary role in this respect.…”

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The Quality of College Student Party Members in the Perspective of Scholarship

Zhang¹,

Liu²,

Yu³

2017

HSS

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Abstract:The quality of college student party member is the core task work of development about college student party member, and will affect the future development of the Communist Party of China directly. In this paper, Dalian University of Technology student members is the object of study, and based on the scholarship, it analyzes the status quo of student party members in six aspects: academic achievement, spiritual civilization, social work, social practice, scientific and technological innovation and cultural and sports activities. It is shows that Party members get a higher proportion of scholarships than non-party members. The article also analyzes the difference of the quality of college student party members from three aspects: subject background, gender and grade. It shows great theoretical and practical significance to understand and master the quality of college student party members.

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“…Out of the seventeen existing experimental studies on the impacts of US voucher programs on student achievement, only two find negative effects (Abdulkadiroğlu et al 2018;Dynarski et al 2017). Eleven of the seventeen studies find positive impacts for some or all students (e.g., Cowen 2008;Greene 2001;Wolf et al 2013), while four find no effects (Bitler et al 2013;Bettinger and Slonim 2006;Krueger and Zhu 2004;Mills and Wolf 2017). In addition, voucher programs tend to produce test score effects that improve with time (Shakeel, Anderson, and Wolf 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, voucher programs tend to produce test score effects that improve with time (Shakeel, Anderson, and Wolf 2016). For example, while the voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana negatively affect student test scores in initial years, choice students tend to catch up to their peers in public schools after three years (Mills and Wolf 2017;Waddington and Berends 2018). Both of the experimental studies on the voucher program in Milwaukee find positive impacts (Greene, Peterson, and Du 1999;Rouse 1998), with the more recent study of the MPCP showing that the program improves student standardized math scores by eleven points and reading scores by six points (Greene, Peterson, and Du 1999).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will Democracy Endure Private School Choice? The Effect of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program on Adult Voting Behavior

DeAngelis

Wolf

2018

SSRN Journal

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Do students who experience school choice grow up to be more engaged members of civil society? Looking at voting behavior is one way to answer this question. We employ probit regression analysis to compare the adult voting activity of students who participated in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, a private school voucher program, to their matched public school counterparts. Using a sophisticated matching algorithm, we create a traditional public school student comparison group using data from the state-mandated evaluation of the program. We find that by the time the students were 19-26 years old, no evidence indicates that private school voucher students were more or less likely to vote in 2012 or 2016 than public school students. Our results are robust to all models and are consistent for all subgroups. These findings suggest that the private benefits attained by students using voucher programs do not come with any social costs associated with diminished voting behavior.

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The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program On Student Achievement after Two Years

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature

School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature

The Quality of College Student Party Members in the Perspective of Scholarship

Will Democracy Endure Private School Choice? The Effect of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program on Adult Voting Behavior

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