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Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence From the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

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  • Cecilia E. Rouse

    (Princeton University and NBER)

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In this paper I review the existing evaluations of the effect of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program on student achievement. Two of the three existing papers report significant gains in math for the choice students and two of the three studies report no significant effects in reading. I also extend the analysis to compare the achievement of students in the choice schools to students in three different types of public schools: regular attendance area schools, city-wide (or magnet) schools, and attendance area schools with small class sizes and supplemental funding from the state of Wisconsin ("P-5" schools). The results suggest that students in P-5 schools have similar math test score gains to those in the choice schools, and students in the P-5 schools outperform students in the choice schools in reading. In contrast, students in the city-wide schools score no differently than students in the regular attendance area schools in both math and reading. Given that the pupil-teacher ratios in the P-5 and choice schools are significantly smaller than those in the other public schools, one potential explanation for these results is that students perform well in schools with smaller class sizes.

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  • Cecilia E. Rouse, 1998. "Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence From the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program," Working Papers 775, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
  • Handle: RePEc:pri:indrel:396
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    1. Aksoy, Tevfik & Link, Charles R., 2000. "A panel analysis of student mathematics achievement in the US in the 1990s: does increasing the amount of time in learning activities affect math achievement?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 19(3), pages 261-277, June.
    2. Levitt, Steven D. & List, John A., 2009. "Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(1), pages 1-18, January.
    3. Valentin Verdier, 2020. "Average treatment effects for stayers with correlated random coefficient models of panel data," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(7), pages 917-939, November.
    4. Neal, Derek A., 2007. "TheRole of Private Schools in Education Markets," Working Papers 219, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
    5. Lonnie Stevans & David Sessions, 2000. "Private/Public School Choice and Student Performance Revisited," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 169-184.

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    Keywords

    school vouchers; class size; student achievement;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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