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Joydeep Roy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do charter Schools crowd out private School Enrollment evidence from michigan
Social Science Research Network, 2010Co-Authors: Rajashri Chakrabarti, Joydeep RoyAbstract:Charter Schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent School reform measures in the United States. Currently, there are more than 5,000 charter Schools spread across forty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Though there have been numerous studies on the effects of charter Schools, these have mostly been confined to analyzing their effects on student achievement, student demographic composition, parental satisfaction, and the competitive effects on regular public Schools. This study departs from the existing literature by investigating the effect of charter Schools on Enrollment in private Schools. To investigate this issue empirically, we focus on the state of Michigan, where there was a significant spread of charter Schools in the 1990s. Using data on private School Enrollment from biennial National Center for Education Statistics private School surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy that exploits exogenous variation from Michigan charter law, we investigate the effect of charter School penetration on private School Enrollment. We find robust evidence of a decline in Enrollment in private Schools—but the effect is only modest in size. We do not find evidence that Enrollments in Catholic or other religious Schools suffered more relative to those in nonreligious private Schools
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do charter Schools crowd out private School Enrollment evidence from michigan
Staff Reports, 2010Co-Authors: Rajashri Chakrabarti, Joydeep RoyAbstract:Charter Schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent School reform measures in the United States. Currently, there are more than 4,500 charter Schools spread across forty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Though there have been numerous studies on the effects of charter Schools, these have mostly been confined to analyzing the effects on student achievement, student demographic composition, parental satisfaction, and the competitive effects on regular public Schools. This study departs from the existing literature by investigating the effect of charter Schools on Enrollment in private Schools. To investigate this issue empirically, we focus on the state of Michigan, where there was a significant spread of charter Schools in the 1990s. Using data on private School Enrollment from decennial censuses and biennial National Center for Education Statistics private School surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy that exploits exogenous variation from Michigan charter law, we investigate the effect of charter School penetration on private School Enrollment. We find some evidence of a decline in Enrollment in private Schools - but the effect is only modest in size. This finding is reasonably robust, and survives several robustness checks.
Matthew Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the impact of business cycle fluctuations on graduate School Enrollment
Economics of Education Review, 2013Co-Authors: Matthew JohnsonAbstract:This paper adds to the understanding of student decisions about graduate School attendance by studying the magnitude of the effect of business cycle fluctuations on Enrollment. I use data on graduate School Enrollment from the Current Population Survey and statewide variation in unemployment rates across time to proxy for changes in business cycle conditions. I find that overall graduate School Enrollment is countercyclical for females and acyclical for males. I show that changes in the unemployment rate have non-linear impacts on female Enrollment and that poor labor market conditions lead to a substitution from full-time Enrollment to part-time Enrollment for both genders.
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the impact of business cycle fluctuations on graduate School Enrollment
Mathematica Policy Research Reports, 2013Co-Authors: Matthew JohnsonAbstract:This paper adds to the understanding of student decisions about graduate School attendance by studying the magnitude of the effect of business cycle fluctuations on Enrollment.
Misty L Heggeness - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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improving child welfare in middle income countries the unintended consequence of a pro homemaker divorce law and wait time to divorce
Journal of Development Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Misty L HeggenessAbstract:Abstract This study identifies the impact of access to and the speed of divorce on the welfare of children in a middle income largely Catholic country. Using difference-in-difference estimation techniques, I compare School Enrollment for children of married and cohabiting parent households before and after the legalization of divorce. Implementing pro-homemaker divorce laws increased School Enrollment anywhere from 3.4 to 5.5 percentage points, and the effect was particularly salient on secondary School students. I provide evidence that administrative processes influencing the speed of divorce affect household bargaining and investments in Schooling. With every additional six months wait to the finalization of divorce, School Enrollment decreased by approximately one percentage point. The impact almost doubles for secondary Schooling. When contemplating development policies, advocates, policymakers, and leaders should not overlook the impact changes in family policies and administrative processes can have on advancements in child welfare and, ultimately, economic development. (JEL: D12, D13, J12, I21, I25).
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improving child welfare in middle income countries the unintended consequence of a pro homemaker divorce law and wait time to divorce
2019Co-Authors: Misty L HeggenessAbstract:This study identifies the impact of access to and the speed of divorce on the welfare of children in a middle income largely Catholic country. Using difference-in-difference estimation techniques, I compare School Enrollment for children of married and cohabiting parent households before and after the legalization of divorce. Implementing pro-homemaker divorce laws increased School Enrollment anywhere from 3.4 to 5.5 percentage points, and the effect was particularly salient on secondary School students. I provide evidence that administrative processes influencing the speed of divorce affect household bargaining and investments in Schooling. With every additional six months wait to the finalization of divorce, School Enrollment decreased by approximately one percentage point. The impact almost doubles for secondary Schooling. When contemplating development policies, advocates, policymakers, and leaders should not overlook the impact changes in family policies and administrative processes can have on advancements in child welfare and, ultimately, economic development.
Richard J Murnane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term trends in private School Enrollments by family income
AERA Open, 2018Co-Authors: Richard J Murnane, Sean F ReardonAbstract:We use data from multiple national surveys to describe trends in private elementary School Enrollment by family income from 1968 to 2013. We find several important trends. First, the private School...
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long term trends in private School Enrollments by family income
2017Co-Authors: Richard J Murnane, Sean F ReardonAbstract:We use data from multiple national surveys to describe trends in private elementary School Enrollment by family income from 1968-2013. We note several important trends. First, the private School Enrollment rate of middle-income families declined substantially over the last five decades, while that of high-income families remained quite stable. Second, there are notable differences in private School Enrollment trends by race/ethnicity, urbanicity, and region of the country. Although racial/ethnic differences in private School Enrollment are largely explained by income differences, the urban/suburban and regional differences in private School Enrollment patterns are large even among families with similar incomes. In particular, the 90-50 income percentile difference in private School Enrollment rates in 2013 is more than three times as large in cities as in the suburbs, and these gaps are larger in the South and West than in the Northeast and Midwest. Factors contributing to these patterns may include trends in income inequality, private School costs and availability, and the perceived relative quality of local Schooling options.
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expanding School Enrollment by subsidizing private Schools lessons from bogota
Comparative Education Review, 2006Co-Authors: Claudia Uribe, Richard J Murnane, John B Willett, Marie Andree SomersAbstract:In many countries government policies that use tax revenues to pay all or part of the cost of educating children in private Schools have blurred the distinction between public and private Schools. For example, Chile and New Zealand have implemented educational voucher programs to stimulate competition among Schools. The government of the Netherlands pays the costs of educating children at Schools run by religious organizations. Recently, some countries have introduced policies of subsidizing private Schools as a way of increasing supply. For example, part of the strategy the city of Bogota, Colombia, is using to meet its commitment to universal access to primary Schooling is to subsidize private Schools that enroll low-income students. The success of these private sector strategies assumes that participating private Schools will provide a high-quality education to their students and will do so without reducing the quality of public Schools. Understanding whether this assumption is valid requires investigation of the manner in which public Schools and private Schools “produce” student achievement, especially because, in many settings, the student body compositions, teacher characteristics, and class sizes of public Schools and private Schools differ markedly. If these factors play a role in determining children’s skills, then these dif-
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expanding School Enrollment by subsidizing private Schools lessons from bogota
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005Co-Authors: Claudia Uribe, Richard J Murnane, John B Willett, Marie Andree SomersAbstract:Many countries use tax revenues to subsidize private Schools. Whether these policies meet social objectives depends, in part, on the relative quality of education provided by the two types of Schools. We use data on elementary School students and their teachers in Bogota, Colombia to examine difference in resource mixes and differences in the relative effectiveness of public and private Schools. We find that, on average, the Schools in the two sectors are equally effective. However, they produce education using very different resource combinations. Moreover, there are large differences in the effectiveness of Schools in both sectors, especially in the private sector. The results of our analysis shed light on the quantity-quality tradeoff that governments in many developing countries face in deciding how to use scarce educational resources.
Marie Andree Somers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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expanding School Enrollment by subsidizing private Schools lessons from bogota
Comparative Education Review, 2006Co-Authors: Claudia Uribe, Richard J Murnane, John B Willett, Marie Andree SomersAbstract:In many countries government policies that use tax revenues to pay all or part of the cost of educating children in private Schools have blurred the distinction between public and private Schools. For example, Chile and New Zealand have implemented educational voucher programs to stimulate competition among Schools. The government of the Netherlands pays the costs of educating children at Schools run by religious organizations. Recently, some countries have introduced policies of subsidizing private Schools as a way of increasing supply. For example, part of the strategy the city of Bogota, Colombia, is using to meet its commitment to universal access to primary Schooling is to subsidize private Schools that enroll low-income students. The success of these private sector strategies assumes that participating private Schools will provide a high-quality education to their students and will do so without reducing the quality of public Schools. Understanding whether this assumption is valid requires investigation of the manner in which public Schools and private Schools “produce” student achievement, especially because, in many settings, the student body compositions, teacher characteristics, and class sizes of public Schools and private Schools differ markedly. If these factors play a role in determining children’s skills, then these dif-
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expanding School Enrollment by subsidizing private Schools lessons from bogota
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005Co-Authors: Claudia Uribe, Richard J Murnane, John B Willett, Marie Andree SomersAbstract:Many countries use tax revenues to subsidize private Schools. Whether these policies meet social objectives depends, in part, on the relative quality of education provided by the two types of Schools. We use data on elementary School students and their teachers in Bogota, Colombia to examine difference in resource mixes and differences in the relative effectiveness of public and private Schools. We find that, on average, the Schools in the two sectors are equally effective. However, they produce education using very different resource combinations. Moreover, there are large differences in the effectiveness of Schools in both sectors, especially in the private sector. The results of our analysis shed light on the quantity-quality tradeoff that governments in many developing countries face in deciding how to use scarce educational resources.
