route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of … taking the "GED path" to postsecondary education. Lacking suitable instruments that would allow us to directly address … 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

In this article, we review the empirical evidence on the impact of education vouchers on student achievement, and … gains for students offered education vouchers, most of which are not statistically different from zero. Further, what little … wages, and whether vouchers might nevertheless provide a costneutral alternative to our current system of public education …