Experimentally Estimated Impacts of School
Vouchers on College Enrollment and Degree Attainment.
Peterson and Matthew Chingos published a study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, «The Impact of School
Vouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vouchers.
A study by Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson on the long - term impact of school
vouchers on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform.
The study, «Experimentally estimated impacts of school
vouchers on college enrollment and degree attainment,» was published in the Journal of Public Economics in 2015.
CAMBRIDGE, MA — The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, announced today that «The Effects of School
Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City» meets WWC standards without reservations.
An analysis of the study, «The Impact of School
Vouchers on College Enrollment,» will appear in the Summer issue of Education Next and is now available online.
An analysis of the study, «The Impact of School
Vouchers on College Enrollment,» will appear in the Summer issue of Education Next and is now available online at www.educationnext.org.
A study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next looked at the impact of receiving
a voucher on the college enrollment rates of students in New York City.
In this paper, we extend the original evaluation of the SCSF program by estimating impacts of the offer of
a voucher on college enrollment.
Matthew Chingos and I have just released a study that for the first time makes use of data from a randomized field trial to identify the impact of school
vouchers on college enrollments.
Not exact matches
While the impact of
vouchers on African American students was large, the impact of a
voucher offer
on the
college enrollment rate of Hispanic students was found to be a statistically insignificant 2 percentage points.
• Among students using the
voucher to attend a private elementary school (most students attended Catholic schools), the estimated impact
on full - time
college enrollment was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 %.
To calculate the latest information
on voucher impacts upon
college enrollment and bachelor's degree attainment, we utilized data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) to glean information
on college enrollment and attainment for 99 percent of all participating students.
The TOT analysis assumes that winning the lottery had no impact
on college enrollment among students who never used a
voucher.
For this group as a whole, the estimated impact of the
voucher offer
on college enrollment within three years of expected graduation has a negative sign but is imprecisely estimated.
The estimated impact of the
voucher offer
on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.
Peterson and his co-author Matthew Chingos today released a study
on the long - term impacts of
vouchers on future
college enrollment for African American students.
New studies suggest that school
vouchers have minimal impact
on college enrollment and even less of an effect
on college graduation rates.
Based
on their analysis, they also found «a
voucher offer increased the
college -
enrollment rate of African American students by 7 percentage points, an increase of 20 percent.
In addition to these four state - based studies of
voucher program impacts
on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects
on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community
college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in
voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in
voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C.
voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26