Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program

Megan Austin; R. Joseph Waddington; Mark Berends

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 3 20-40

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 11, 2019.

© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Austin, Megan, R. Joseph Waddington, and Mark Berends. 2019. “Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(3): 20–40. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02. Author order was determined randomly; each contributed equally to this paper. This paper was supported by Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity and Institute of Educational Initiatives, the Spencer Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation. We are grateful to the Indiana Department of Education for providing access to the state administrative records and for supporting independent analyses. We are also grateful for the substantial feedback we have received from numerous colleagues, including David Agrawal, Bob Bifulco, Jo Blacketor, Kenneth Couch, Josh Cowen, Kenneth Dodge, John Elcesser, Joe Ferrare, Phil Gleason, Joshua Goodman, Doug Harris, Brian Jacob, Helen “Sunny” Ladd, Hank Levin, Maddy Mavrogordato, Andrew Penner, Ann Primus, Macke Raymond, Amy Ellen Schwartz, James Shuls, Erdal Tekin, Genia Toma, Patrick Wolf, Ron Zimmer, three anonymous reviewers, and participants at the Using Administrative Data for Science and Policy conference held in January 2018 at the Russell Sage Foundation headquarters in New York. All opinions expressed in this paper represent those of the authors and not necessarily the institutions with which they are affiliated. All errors in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors. Direct correspondence to: Megan Austin at maustin@air.org, 10 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60606. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Megan Austin^a,
R. Joseph Waddington^b and
Mark Berends^c

^aResearcher at American Institutes for Research
^bAssistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky, where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
^cProfessor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity