Patrick J. Wolf

TL;DR: This article examined the effects of school vouchers on student test scores in New York, New York and Washington, DC, and found that after two years, African Americans who switched from public to private school gained, relative to their public-school peers, an average of 6.3 National Percentile Ranking points in the three cities on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the empirical question of whether or not a school voucher program in Washington, DC, affected achievement or the rate of high school graduation for participating students.

TL;DR: The authors found that low-income students who were awarded vouchers to attend private schools through the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) were performing at similar levels in reading and math 4 to 5 years later as students who also applied to the OSP, but were not awarded scholarships.

TL;DR: The authors examined educational attainment levels for students in Milwaukee's citywide voucher program and a comparable group of public school students and found that exposure to voucher schools was related to graduation and, in particular, to enrollment and persistence in a 4-year college.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of business campaign contributions on congressional voting behavior was examined by analyzing both individual and PAC campaign contributions from business interests and building several indexes of macro business policy votes in the 105th Congress.