Revisando El Efecto De La Escuela Católica: Updating Coleman's Research for the 21st Century

• In Event: Social Capital Theory and Research

Abstract

Beginning in the 1980s, a canon of research highlights the positive effects of Catholic schools for underserved student populations in the U.S. As more and more families emigrated from Mexico, Latin America, and South America, we question whether the Catholic School Effect still holds for Latinx students. Following in the tradition of this literature, we use data from the HSLS:09 study to compares the outcomes of Latinx students who are enrolled in Catholic secondary school and an innovative counterfactual, Latinx students residing in counties where there are no Catholic schools. Using propensity score matching, we find that there is no difference between the outcomes in math for these two groups, which suggests the Catholic School Effect may be outdated.

Authors

• Megan Kathryn Rauch Griffard, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Constance A. Lindsay, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill