TY  - JOUR
AU  - Figlio,David
AU  - Ludwig,Jens
TI  - Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7990
PY  - 2000
Y2  - November 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7990
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7990.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David N. Figlio
Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
2040 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 847-467-1503
Fax: 847-491-9916
E-Mail: figlio@northwestern.edu

Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago
1155 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/834-0811
Fax: 773/834-1582
E-Mail: jludwig@uchicago.edu
AB  - This paper examines the effects of private schooling on adolescent non-market behaviors.  We control for differences between private and public school students by making use of the rich set of covariates available with our NELS micro-dataset.  We also employ an instrumental-variables strategy that exploits variation across metropolitan areas in the costs that parents face in transporting their children to private schools, which stem from differences in the quality of the local transportation infrastructure.  We find evidence to suggest that religious private schooling reduces teen sexual activity, arrests, and use of hard drugs (cocaine), but not drinking, smoking, gang involvement, or marijuana use.
ER  -