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Another look at whether private schools influence public school quality: Comment

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Couch, Shughart, and Williams (1993) report that private school enrollments are positively correlated with scores on a standard algebra test taken by North Carolina public school students. In this paper I show that if any one of five reasonable changes is made to the specification of their model, this correlation disappears.

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  1. Department of Economics, North Carolina State University, 27695-7507, Raleigh, NC

    Craig M. Newmark

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Newmark, C.M. Another look at whether private schools influence public school quality: Comment. Public Choice 82, 365–373 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047704

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