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Related Research on School Choice

February 21, 2012 3 min read
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The authors of the Commentary “What Research Says About School Choice” provided the following list of sources related to their findings.

Some of the studies listed below are in PDF format.

Random Assignment Studies

U.S. Department of Education, 2010

Policy Studies Journal, 2007

American Behavioral Scientist, 2004

See Also

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2003


Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell, 2002

Education Next, Summer 2001

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998

Learning From School Choice, 1998

, Greg Forester, 2011

Academic Outcomes in Public Schools

Education Next, 2001

Manhattan Institute, 2002

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report #315, 2008

Journal of Public Economics, 2008

Economic Policy Institute, 2007

Manhattan Institute, 2001

Education Next, 2004

Education Next, 2004

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report #306, 2007

Journal of Public Economics, 2006

National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2007

Economic Journal, 2006

Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2008

Manhattan Institute, 2008

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16056, 2010

Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2002

Manhattan Institute, 2006

Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2008

Cato Journal, 2011

Competitive Effects of Charter Schools

“The Competitive Effects of Charter Schools on Traditional Public School”
From , 2009

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 8873, 2002

Fiscal Impact

Robert Costrell’s studies of Milwaukee:

“The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update”

“The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, 1993-2008”

Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability studies: and

Collins Center for Public Policy, 2007

Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2007

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A version of this article appeared in the February 22, 2012 edition of Education Week

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