Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes

2019/09/26 by Will Dobbie, Roland G. Fryer · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #School Choice and Performance #Higher Education Research Studies #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies #Charter #Earnings #Test (biology) #Charter school #Demographic economics #Economics #Labour economics #Test score #Psychology #Political science #Standardized test #Accounting #Mathematics education #Law

paper · doi:10.1086/706534

openalex publication_date 2019/09/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes in Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and 4-year college enrollment but have a statistically insignificant impact on earnings, although the coefficient is almost identical to what one would expect given the correlation between test scores and wages. Other types of charter schools decrease test scores, 4-year college enrollment, and earnings, and surprisingly the decrease in wages is more negative than one would anticipate.

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