Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G.
• 署名单位: Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/706534
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 915-957
• 关键词: public-schools; QUALITY; ACCOUNTABILITY; earnings; CHOICE; attainment; impacts; entry

摘要

We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes in Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and 4-year college enrollment but have a statistically insignificant impact on earnings, although the coefficient is almost identical to what one would expect given the correlation between test scores and wages. Other types of charter schools decrease test scores, 4-year college enrollment, and earnings, and surprisingly the decrease in wages is more negative than one would anticipate.