The effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: experimental evidence from New York City

In the first study, using a randomized experiment to measure the impact of school vouchers on college enrollment, [the authors] examine the college-going behavior through 2011 of students who participated in a voucher experiment as elementary school students in the late 1990s. They find no overall impacts on college enrollment but do find large, statistically significant positive impacts on the college going of African-American students who participated in the study. Their estimates indicate that using a voucher to attend private school increased the overall college enrollment rate among Afric ... Show more

Authors: Chingos, Matthew M.; Peterson, Paul E.

Published: Washington, District of Columbia, Brookings Institution, 2012

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: iv, 34 p.

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