The Effect of Private School Vouchers on Political Participation: Experimental Evidence from New York City. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper Series. PEPG 16-01

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العنوان: The Effect of Private School Vouchers on Political Participation: Experimental Evidence from New York City. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper Series. PEPG 16-01
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Carlson, Deven, Chingos, Matthew M., Campbell, David E., Harvard University, Program on Education Policy and Governance
المصدر: Program on Education Policy and Governance. 2016.
الاتاحة: Program on Education Policy and Governance. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Taubman 304, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 617-495-7976; Fax: 617-496-4428; e-mail: pepg@fas.harvard.edu; Web site: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 45
تاريخ النشر: 2016
نوع الوثيقة: Reports - Research
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Vouchers, Citizen Participation, Voting, Outcomes of Education, Low Income Students, Scholarships, Regression (Statistics), Elections, Citizenship Education
مصطلحات جغرافية: New York (New York)
مستخلص: In 1997, the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation Program (SCSF) randomly offered three-year scholarships to attend private schools to approximately 1,000 low-income families in New York City. In this paper we leverage exogenous variation generated by the SCSF to estimate the causal effect of the private school voucher offer--and the private school attendance it induced--on later-life voter registration and turnout outcomes. Our results demonstrate that the voucher intervention had no effect on registering to vote or voting in any of several elections for either the full sample or any of several demographic subgroups. Although unique aspects of the SCSF context impose limits on the scope of our results, they have clear implications for assessing the relative effectiveness of public and private schools in preparing democratic citizens. We close the paper by discussing the implications of the results for research and policy. Supplemental tables are appended.
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 54
Entry Date: 2017
رقم الانضمام: ED574540
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC