Analyzing the impact of school vouchers and private schooling on student achievement

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In this dissertation, I analyze (1) the impact on academic achievement of using school vouchers to attend private schools for different lengths of time, (2) the average treatment effect (ATE) of receiving school vouchers (regardless of using them or not) on student achievement for different subgroups of voucher users, and (3) two other important aspects of the distribution of impacts on achievement of the voucher students—the proportion of voucher students who showed test score gains and the different quantiles of the impact distribution. The mean impact of offering vouchers (or the intent-to-treat effect) has dominated the empirical literature of school vouchers as the central question of interest, but this conventional impact parameter does not provide a complete picture of the effectiveness of the voucher programs due to the dynamic aspect of self-selection into the program and to the large variation across different quantiles of the achievement impact distribution. The data from th

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