Are private schools really better?

David N. Figlio, Joe A. Stone

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62 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationResearch in Labor Economics
PublisherJAI Press
Pages115-140
Number of pages26
ISBN (Print)0762305843, 9780762305841
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

Publication series

NameResearch in Labor Economics
Volume18
ISSN (Print)0147-9121

Funding

The authors benefitted from helpful conversations with and comments from Doug Bemheim, Cohn Cameron, Dave Card, Jill Constantine, Tom Downes, Randy Eberts, Dennis Epple, Dan Goldhaber, Dan Harnermesh, Caroline Hoxby, Larry Kenny, Dan McMillen, Derek Neal, John Pencavel, Rich Romano, Bill Sander, Larry Singe& Wes Wilson, and Jim Ziliak, as well as seminar participants at DePaul University, Portland State University, Public Policy Institute of California, Stanford University, and the Universities of California-Davis, Florida, Kansas, Oregon, Warwick and Wisconsin, and participants at the 1998 AEA meetings. We thank the U.S. Department of Education for permission to use the confidential data in this paper. We gratefully appreciate the financial support from National Science Foundation grants SBR-9816629 (Figlio) and SBR-9810615 (Stone), and from the American Education Research Association (Figlio). Any opinions or errors are solely those of the authors.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial relations
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations

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