TY - JOUR
T1 - Private school vouchers and student achievement
T2 - An evaluation of the Milwaukee parental choice program
AU - Rouse, Cecilia Elena
N1 - Funding Information:
* I thank Orley Ashenfelter, Michael Boozer, Kristin Butcher, David Card, Henry Farber, and Alan Krueger for insightful suggestions and conversations, participants at the Demand-side Financing in Education seminar at the World Bank, the University of Chicago Business School’s labor seminar, the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Program on Children Conference, the Princeton Labor Lunch, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s public finance seminar, three anonymous referees, and the editor, Lawrence Katz, for helpful comments. I particularly thank Lisa Boeger, Jay Greene, and John Witte for insights about the program and lots of help with the data. Jeffrey Wilder provided expert research assistance. I thank the Mellon Foundation and the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University for financial support. All errors are mine.
PY - 1998/5
Y1 - 1998/5
N2 - In 1990 Wisconsin began providing vouchers to a small number of low-income students to attend nonsectarian private schools. Controlling for individual fixed-effects, I compare the test scores of students selected to attend a participating private school with those of unsuccessful applicants and other students from the Milwaukee public schools. I find that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program had faster math score gains than, but similar reading score gains to, the comparison groups. The results appear robust to data imputations and sample attrition, although these deficiencies of the data should be kept in mind when interpreting the results.
AB - In 1990 Wisconsin began providing vouchers to a small number of low-income students to attend nonsectarian private schools. Controlling for individual fixed-effects, I compare the test scores of students selected to attend a participating private school with those of unsuccessful applicants and other students from the Milwaukee public schools. I find that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program had faster math score gains than, but similar reading score gains to, the comparison groups. The results appear robust to data imputations and sample attrition, although these deficiencies of the data should be kept in mind when interpreting the results.
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U2 - 10.1162/003355398555685
DO - 10.1162/003355398555685
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0000674698
SN - 0033-5533
VL - 113
SP - 553
EP - 602
JO - Quarterly Journal of Economics
JF - Quarterly Journal of Economics
IS - 2
ER -