Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors / David Figlio, Jens Ludwig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Figlio, David.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ludwig, Jens.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7990.

NBER working paper series no. w7990

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.

Summary:

This paper examines the effects of private schooling on adolescent non-market behaviors. We control for differences between private and public school students by making use of the rich set of covariates available with our NELS micro-dataset. We also employ an instrumental-variables strategy that exploits variation across metropolitan areas in the costs that parents face in transporting their children to private schools, which stem from differences in the quality of the local transportation infrastructure. We find evidence to suggest that religious private schooling reduces teen sexual activity, arrests, and use of hard drugs (cocaine), but not drinking, smoking, gang involvement, or marijuana use.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2000.