Catholic School Effectiveness in Australia: A Reassessment Using Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables

Buly Cardak and Joe Vecci ()
Additional contact information
Joe Vecci: School of Economics, Monash University

No 2013.05, Working Papers from School of Economics, La Trobe University

Abstract: This paper provides new estimates of the effect of Catholic school attendance on high schoolcompletion and university commencement and completion for Australian students. First, an instrumental variables approach is adopted where the probability of Catholic affiliation is used as an instrument. Consistent with the recent US literature, results based on this instrument are mixed. Instead, bounds are placed on the Catholic school effect using the assumption of equality between selection on observables and unobservables. The effect of Catholic school attendance is found to be smaller than previous results and negative treatment effects cannot be ruled out. Recent improvements in public school outcomes may have contributed to the smaller Catholic school effects.

Keywords: Catholic Schools; High School Completion; University Attendance; Selection Bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu and nep-ure
Note: ISSN-1837-2198
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/459944/2013.05.pdf first version, 2013.05.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/459944/2013.05.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/459944/2013.05.pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Catholic school effectiveness in Australia: A reassessment using selection on observed and unobserved variables (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:trb:wpaper:2013.05

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from School of Economics, La Trobe University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Stephen Scoglio ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).