TY - JOUR T1 - The Effectiveness of Catholic Primary Schooling JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 928 LP - 941 DO - 10.3368/jhr.XXXVIII.4.928 VL - XXXVIII IS - 4 AU - Christopher Jepsen Y1 - 2003/10/02 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXVIII/4/928.abstract N2 - 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. ER -