Experimentally estimated impacts of school vouchers on college enrollment and degree attainment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chingos, Matthew M.; Peterson, Paul E.
• 署名单位: Brookings Institution; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pubeco.2014.11.013
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1-12
• 关键词: School vouchers; school choice; college enrollment; Degree attainment

摘要

We provide the first experimental estimates of the long-term impacts of a voucher to attend private school by linking data from a privately sponsored voucher initiative in New York City, which awarded the scholarships by lottery to low-income families, to administrative records on college enrollment and degree attainment. We find no significant effects on college enrollment or four-year degree attainment of the offer of a voucher. However, we find substantial, marginally significant impacts for minority students and large, significant impacts for the children of women born in the United States. Negative point estimates for the children of non-minority and foreign-born mothers are not statistically significant at conventional levels. The information needed to match students to administrative data on postsecondary outcomes was available for 99% of the sample. We find evidence of substantial bias due to attrition in the original evaluation, which relied on data collected at follow-up sessions. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.