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The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement after Three Years

This paper by Jonathan N. Mills and Patrick J. Wolf examines the effects of using a Louisiana Scholarship Program scholarship to enroll in one's first choice private school on student achievement in the three years following the program's expansion.

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The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement after Three Years

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by Jonathan N. Mills, Patrick J. Wolf

The Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (LSP) is a statewide ini­tia­tive offer­ing pub­licly-fund­ed vouch­ers to enroll in local pri­vate schools to stu­dents in low-per­form­ing schools with fam­i­ly income no greater than 250 per­cent of the pover­ty line. Ini­tial­ly estab­lished in 2008 as a pilot pro­gram in New Orleans, the LSP was expand­ed statewide in 2012. This paper exam­ines the exper­i­men­tal effects of using an LSP schol­ar­ship to enroll in a pri­vate school on stu­dent achieve­ment in the three years fol­low­ing the program’s expan­sion. This report is sum­ma­rized in the pol­i­cy brief [​How Has the Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram Affect­ed Stu­dents? A Com­pre­hen­sive Sum­ma­ry of Effects After Three Years](http://campaigns.line58.com/t/r‑i-jllyett-l‑o/) by Jonathan N. Mills and Patrick J. Wolf.

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