Private school versus public school achievement: Are there findings that should affect the educational choice debate?

Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error

1979 • 27,564 citations

Meta-analysis in social research

1982 • 3,988 citations

Secondary School Tracking and Educational Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?

1989 • 669 citations

A Multilevel Model of the Social Distribution of High School Achievement

1989 • 666 citations

The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities

1987 • 515 citations

The High School as Community: Contextual Influences and Consequences for Students and Teachers.

1988 • 345 citations

High School Achievement

1922 • 286 citations

Achievement Growth in Public and Catholic Schools

1985 • 271 citations

Curriculum Tracking as Mediating the Social Distribution of High School Achievement

1988 • 266 citations

Public and private schools

1982 • 231 citations

The Causal Analysis of Cognitive Outcomes in the Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore Report

1982 • 188 citations

Catholic-School Effects on Academic Achievement: New Evidence from the High School and Beyond Follow-Up Study

1985 • 153 citations

School Sector and Cognitive Performance: When is a Little a Little?

1985 • 139 citations

On ‘Politics, Markets, and American Schools‘

1992 • 130 citations

Public and Catholic Schools: A Reanalysis of "Public and Private Schools"

1982 • 122 citations

How Much Do High School Students Learn?

1985 • 119 citations

Private Schools and Public Policy: New Evidence on Cognitive Achievement in Public and Private Schools

1983 • 89 citations

Public dollars for private schools : the case of tuition tax credits

1983 • 38 citations

Stochastic Variation: A Comment on Lewis-Beck and Skalaban's “The R-Squared”

1990 • 25 citations

School Effectiveness Within the Public and Private Sectors

1984 • 17 citations

The theory of choice and control in education

1990 • 6 citations

A Response to Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore

1983 • 6 citations