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Participation Patterns In Private School Choice Programs In The U.S.: States, Schools, Students, Yujie Sude
Participation Patterns In Private School Choice Programs In The U.S.: States, Schools, Students, Yujie Sude
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Private choice programs provide government resources to qualified families to enable them to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing. “Gold standard” experimental studies have found overall mixed impacts of voucher programs, one form of private school choice arrangements, on student academic achievement. Yet, these results face external validity challenges, as both states, schools, and students can choose to participate in private choice programs, generating selection issues.
This dissertation focuses on the decision-making of states, schools, and students in participating in private school choice programs. The first study estimates the effect of state-level social factors on private school …
The Societal Impacts Of Private School Choice Around The World, Corey Adam Deangelis
The Societal Impacts Of Private School Choice Around The World, Corey Adam Deangelis
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
With the 2016 presidential campaign and the appointment of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary of the United States, private school choice – in the form of vouchers, tuition tax-credits, and education savings accounts – has become increasingly policy relevant. While an introduction of competitive pressures into the schooling sector may improve educational quality levels, the effects on societal outcomes such as national test scores, student effort, and criminality may be less clear. After all, traditional public schools were created to ensure that children from diverse backgrounds became proper citizens.
These three dissertation chapters empirically examine a largely underexplored area: the …