Interpreting School Choice Effects: Do Voucher Experiments Estimate the Impact of Attending Private School?

Autor/in	Cowen, Joshua M.
Titel	Interpreting School Choice Effects: Do Voucher Experiments Estimate the Impact of Attending Private School?
Quelle	In: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 5 (2012) 4, S.384-400 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-5747
DOI	10.1080/19345747.2012.698373
Schlagwörter	Achievement Gains; School Choice; Educational Vouchers; Private Schools; Intervention; Academic Achievement; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Private school; Privatschule; Schulleistung; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	In this article I review the use of randomized field trials to evaluate school voucher interventions. I argue that although estimates of the effect of the voucher offer on achievement are unbiased in these trials, more specific interpretations such as the effect of attending private school may be difficult to obtain. I discuss several evaluation parameters in the context of voucher experiments, with particular attention to the theoretical assumptions needed to identify private school impacts. I argue that if there are direct effects of the voucher offer on student achievement, and compliance with voucher assignment is imperfect, instrumental variable estimates are likely to overstate the extent to which achievement gains may be attributable to private schooling. (Contains 3 tables, 2 figures and 12 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10