The Effectiveness of Catholic Primary Schooling
利用两批小学生的独特数据，发现天主教小学对数学和阅读成绩无显著影响，但可能略微减少四年级学生缺勤。
Abstract Although extensive research has compared Catholic and public high schools, little is known about Catholic primary schools. Using unique data for two cohorts of primary school students, I find that Catholic schooling does not have a significant effect on mathematics and reading test scores. These findings do not change when school level test scores from the first-grade cohort are used to account for selection bias in the fourth-grade cohort. In fourth grade, Catholic schooling is associated with marginally fewer student absences than is public schooling.