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Activity Number: 504
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract - #304601
Title: Public Schools versus Private Schools: Causal Inference with Partial Compliance
Author(s): Hui Jin*+ and Donald B. Rubin
Companies: Harvard University and Harvard University
Address: , , ,
Keywords: causal inference ; Rubin Causal Model ; school voucher program ; educational policy ; Bayesian Statistics
Abstract:

We present an approach to handle partial compliance behavior using the framework of principal stratification and illustrate with a subset of the longitudinal data from the New York City School Choice Scholarship Program, a randomized experiment designed to assess the effects of private versus public schools on academic achievement. Our initial analysis suggests an interesting relationship between children's compliance behavior and their academic achievement, including a possible ``beneficial rejected offer" effect and a possible ``adjustment hardship" effect. These results seem to favor public schools, and illustrate the strengths of the principal stratification framework: It allows for the explicit examination of specific assumptions and can lead to directly interpretable results with possible policy implications.

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