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The Competitive Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Public School Performance

Given the significant growth rate and geographic expansion of private school choice programs over the past two decades, it is important to examine how traditional public schools respond to the sudden injection of competition for students and resources.

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The Competitive Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Public School Performance

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by Anna J. Egalite

How Has the Louisiana Scholarship Program Affected Students after Two Years?

This arti­cle uses 1) a school fixed effects approach, and 2) a regres­sion dis­con­ti­nu­ity frame­work to exam­ine the achieve­ment impacts of the Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (LSP). This tar­get­ed school vouch­er pro­gram has pro­vid­ed pub­lic funds for low-income stu­dents in low-per­form­ing pub­lic schools to enroll in par­tic­i­pat­ing pri­vate schools since the 2012 – 13 school year. Down­load How Has the Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram Affect­ed Students?, a pol­i­cy brief by Jonathan N. Mills, Anna J. Egalite, and Patrick J. Wolf that sum­ma­rizes the four Tech­ni­cal Reports on the affects of the Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Program.

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