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Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series
"... www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg We provide the first experimental estimates of the long-term impacts of a voucher to attend private school by linking data from a privately sponsored voucher initiative in New York City, which awarded the scholarships by lottery to low-income families, to administrative reco ..."
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www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg We provide the first experimental estimates of the long-term impacts of a voucher to attend private school by linking data from a privately sponsored voucher initiative in New York City, which awarded the scholarships by lottery to low-income families, to administrative records on college enrollment and degree attainment. We find no significant effects on college enrollment or four-year degree attainment of the offer of a voucher. However, we find substantial, marginally significant impacts for minority students and large, significant impacts for the children of women born in the United States. Negative point estimates for the children of non-minority and foreign-born mothers are not statistically significant at conventional levels. The information needed to match students to administrative data on postsecondary outcomes was available for 99 percent of the sample. We find evidence of substantial bias due to attrition in the original evaluation, which relied on data collected at follow-up sessions.
0 School and Drugs: Closing the Gap Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US BY NÚRIA RODRÍGUEZ-PLANAS *
"... We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental in the long-run. By exploiting the control group's self ..."
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental in the long-run. By exploiting the control group's self-reported drug use while in school, we evaluate whether the program worked best among those with high-predicted risk of problem behavior. We find QOP to be extremely successful among high-risk youths as it managed to curb their risky behaviors and, by doing so, it persistently improved high-school graduation by 14 percent and college enrollment by 21 percent. In contrast, QOP was unsuccessful among youths in the bottom-half of the risk distribution as it increased their engagement in risky behaviors (especially while in high-school). Evidence suggests that negative peer effects explain these results. * Acknowledgments: The Quantum Opportunity Program experiment study was conducted under
Elementary School Interventions: Experimental Evidence on Postsecondary Outcomes
"... This study exploits a randomized trial of two light-touch elementary school interventions to estimate long-run impacts on postsecondary attendance and attainment. The first is a classroom management technique for developing behavioral skills in children. The second is a curricular intervention aimed ..."
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This study exploits a randomized trial of two light-touch elementary school interventions to estimate long-run impacts on postsecondary attendance and attainment. The first is a classroom management technique for developing behavioral skills in children. The second is a curricular intervention aimed at improving students ’ core reading skills. We detect no average impact of either intervention on the likelihood of college enrollment or degree receipt, but heterogeneous effects by student gender and initial level of academic achievement are detected. Assignment to the behavioral intervention increases the likelihood of college attendance for females, especially at 2-year institutions, but has little impact on males. We find suggestive evidence that exposure to the behavioral intervention benefits low-performing students more than high-performers, whereas exposure to the curricular intervention influences college outcomes more for middle- to high-performing students.
A STUDY OF FINANCIALISATION THROUGH CRISES
, 2013
"... Gkanoutas-Leventis, Angelos (2013). The transformation of the oil market: A study of financialisation through crises. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London) City Research Online Original citation: Gkanoutas-Leventis, Angelos (2013). The transformation of the oil market: A study of fin ..."
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Gkanoutas-Leventis, Angelos (2013). The transformation of the oil market: A study of financialisation through crises. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London) City Research Online Original citation: Gkanoutas-Leventis, Angelos (2013). The transformation of the oil market: A study of financialisation through crises. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London) Permanent City Research Online
credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments
, 2013
"... Peterson, Russ Whitehurst, and seminar participants at Harvard/MIT for helpful comments and discussions, and Jeremy Ferwerda for developing estrat (available at SSC), a Stata package that calculates the leave-one-out and repeated split sample endogenous stratification estimators considered in this s ..."
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Peterson, Russ Whitehurst, and seminar participants at Harvard/MIT for helpful comments and discussions, and Jeremy Ferwerda for developing estrat (available at SSC), a Stata package that calculates the leave-one-out and repeated split sample endogenous stratification estimators considered in this study. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.
