ERIC Number: EJ1259295
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 26
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Heterogeneous Achievement Impacts across Schools in the Louisiana Scholarship Program
Lee, Matthew H.; Mills, Jonathan N.; Wolf, Patrick J.
Journal of School Choice, v14 n2 p228-253 2020
The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a school voucher initiative offering publicly-funded scholarships to students from economically-disadvantaged families to attend participating private schools. Experimental evaluations of the program report large initial negative effects of LSP scholarship usage on standardized assessments after one year that decrease to insignificance by year three and again become negative by year four. Our study explores variation in treatment effects across 14 measures of school quality, school resources, and other school characteristics in the first two years of the program. We find no consistent evidence of mediation that is robust across two analytical sample specifications.
Descriptors: Heterogeneous Grouping, Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Economically Disadvantaged, Private Schools, Program Evaluation, School Choice, Institutional Characteristics, School Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Louisiana
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