School Choice in New York City After Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program

By Daniel P. Mayer, P. Peterson, David G. Myers, C. Tuttle, William G. Howell. 2002

149 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/466a9e6d2b446994ea62952b84a871c0c4396695

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments (2016, unknown): “[170] Mayer, Daniel, Paul Peterson, David Myers, Christina Clark Tuttle, William Howell.”
School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature (2017, unknown): “Nonetheless, Mayer et al. (2002) find the program increased the test scores of African American students in New York by about 6 percentile points (ITT). Krueger and Zhu (2004) show, however, that this finding is sensitive to how ethnicity is coded, as well as to how one handles students with missing”
Causal Inference and Omitted Variable Bias in Financial Aid Research: Assessing Solutions (2008, background): “Some of the most notable random assignment experiments in education are based on oversubscribed elementary school voucher programs in cities like Milwaukee (Rouse, 1998) and New York (Myers & Mayer, 2003; Mayer et al., 2002; Krueger & Zhu, 2004), among others.”
School Vouchers and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Washington, DC (2013, background): “The original experimental analysis concluded that African-American scholarship students outperformed the control group students on a combined measure of math and reading scores (Mayer et al., 2002).”
Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement? (2015, unknown): “, and Dayton, Ohio show small average test score effects, with larger gains for some subgroups (Howell and Peterson 2002; Mayer et al. 2002; Howell et al. 2002; Krueger and Zhu 2004; Wolf et al. 2007, 2010).”
Charter, Private, Public Schools and Academic Achievement: New Evidence from NAEP Mathematics Data (2006, background): “The researchers found no boost in math or reading achievement for White and Hispanic students, but significant gains for African-American students using vouchers to switch from public to private schools (Howell et al., 2000; Mayer et al., 2002; Myers et al., 2000).”
Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery (2006, unknown): “This finding is consistent with several recent studies of impacts of school choice, which find no effect of attending a first choice school on academic outcomes (Cullen, Jacob and Levitt (2003), Mayer, et. al .”