Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis / H. Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mocan, H. Naci.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Tekin, Erdal.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9172.

NBER working paper series no. w9172

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.

Summary:

Although there is a sizeable literature on the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, the number of studies that investigate the impact of school sector on non-academic outcomes is limited. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teenagers use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join gangs, attempt suicide, and run away from home. We employ propensity score matching methods to control for the endogeneity of school choice. Catholic school attendance reduces the propensity to use cocaine and to have sex for female students. However, it increases the propensity to use and sell drugs for male students.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2002.