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EJ970831 - Understanding the Impact of Career Academy Attendance: An Application of the Principal Stratification Framework for Causal Effects Accounting for Partial Compliance

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ERIC #:	EJ970831
Title:	Understanding the Impact of Career Academy Attendance: An Application of the Principal Stratification Framework for Causal Effects Accounting for Partial Compliance
Authors:	Page, Lindsay C.
Descriptors:	Research Design; High Schools; Graduation; Career Academies; School Personnel; Program Effectiveness; Outcomes of Education; Salaries; Education Work Relationship; Inferences; Bayesian Statistics; Attendance
Source:	Evaluation Review, v36 n2 p99-132 Apr 2012
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Publisher:	SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Publication Date:	2012-04-00
Pages:	34
Pub Types:	Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Abstract:	Background: Results from MDRC's longitudinal, random-assignment evaluation of career-academy high schools reveal that several years after high-school completion, those randomized to receive the academy opportunity realized a $175 (11%) increase in monthly earnings, on average. Objectives: In this paper, I investigate the impact of duration of actual academy enrollment, as nearly half of treatment group students either never enrolled or participated for only a portion of high school. Research Design: I capitalize on data from this experimental evaluation and utilize a principal stratification framework and Bayesian inference to investigate the causal impact of academy participation. Subjects: This analysis focuses on a sample of 1,306 students across seven sites in the MDRC evaluation. Measures: Participation is measured by number of years of academy enrollment, and the outcome of interest is average monthly earnings in the period of four to eight years after high school graduation. Results: I estimate an average causal effect of treatment assignment on subsequent monthly earnings of approximately $588 among males who remained enrolled in an academy throughout high school and more modest impacts among those who participated only partially. Conclusions: Different from an instrumental variables approach to treatment non-compliance, which allows for the estimation of linear returns to treatment take-up, the more general framework of principal stratification allows for the consideration of non-linear returns, although at the expense of additional model-based assumptions. (Contains 1 figure, 5 tables, and 11 notes.)
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ISSN:	ISSN-0193-841X
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	High Schools
Direct Link:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193841X12447248

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