Volume 34, Number 4 (Fall) 1999
Sander, William. 1999. "Private Schools and Public School Achievement." Journal of Human Resources 34(4):697-709.
The effects of private schools on public elementary and secondary school achievement in Illinois are estimated. The percentage of students in private schools in a school district is treated as an endogenous variable in the achievement equation. Catholic religion is used to identify a two-stage model. It is shown that private schools have no direct effect on public school achievement.
The author is a professor of economics at DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60604. The author thanks Anand Sharma for research assistance, Erin Randall for editorial assistance, and Depaul's College of Commerce for research support. He also thanks two anonymous reviewers, Dan Aaronson, Steve Riv-kin, Anthony Krautmann, and Derek Neal. for their comments. A preliminary version of the paper was presented at the Midwest Economic Association's Annual Meeting in Chicago, March 1998. The data used in this article can he obtained beginning January 2000 through January 2003 from the author.
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