School Vouchers and Academic Performance: Results from Three Randomized Field Trials

By William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf, D. Campbell, P. Peterson. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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The Effects of Competition Between Schools on Educational Outcomes: A Review for the United States (2002, background): “2 This rejection criterion served to exclude only one study: Hoxby (1999) reported a sizable set of results from market forces. However, the data source for those results was reported as “on author” and may be the same as those estimations attributed to Hoxby in our main text. 3 For research on smal”
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).”
International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review (2007, background): “Howell, Wolf, Campbell, and Peterson (2002) provided evidence from several randomized field trials in the United States showing that school vouchers substantially increased the academic performance of African Americans who were enabled to switch to private schools.”
Principal Stratification (2015, unknown): “causal models, quantitative methods, RCT, impact evaluation”
Research Design in Qualitative/Quantitative/Mixed Methods (2011, methodology): “This framework is described next, and studies by Howell et al. (2002) and Norman (2008) are used to illustrate strengths in their research design, as well as opportunities to enhance their results by employing a mixed methods approach.”
School choice, racial segregation, and test-score gaps: Evidence from North Carolina's charter school program (2007, background): “exhibited statistically significant positive gains in test scores (Howell et al. 2002; Howell and Peterson 2002).”
Causal Inference and Omitted Variable Bias in Financial Aid Research: Assessing Solutions (2008, unknown): “( Howell, Wolf, Campbell, and Peterson 2002 ) on students’ achievement test scores.”
CAN NONEXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATES REPLICATE ESTIMATES BASED ON RANDOM ASSIGNMENT IN EVALUATIONS OF SCHOOL CHOICE? A WITHIN-STUDY COMPARISON (2012, background): “10 selection into school choice programs (Betts et al., 2006; Cullen, Jacob and Levitt, 2006; Hoxby and Rockoff, 2004; Howell et al., 2002).”
School Vouchers and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Washington, DC (2013, methodology): “As with previous experimental analyses of the impacts of voucher or voucher-like programs (e.g., Greene, 2001; Howell et al., 2002), the estimates of the impact of the scholarship offer, called intent-to-treat (ITT), include in the treatment average the outcomes for all scholarship recipients, inclu”