| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23159 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23159 |
| Beyond the Classroom: The Implications of School Vouchers for Church Finances | |
| Daniel M. Hungerman; Kevin J. Rinz; Jay Frymark | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-02-13 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Governments have used vouchers to spend billions of dollars on private education; much of this spending has gone to religiously-affiliated schools. We explore the possibility that vouchers could create a financial windfall for religious organizations operating private schools and in doing so impact the spiritual, moral, and social fabric of communities. We use a dataset of Catholic-parish finances from Milwaukee that includes information on both Catholic schools and the parishes that run them. We show that vouchers are now a dominant source of funding for many churches; parishes in our sample running voucher-accepting schools get more revenue from vouchers than from worshipers. We also find that voucher expansion prevents church closures and mergers. Despite these results, we fail to find evidence that vouchers promote religious behavior: voucher expansion causes significant declines in church donations and church spending on non-educational religious purposes. The meteoric growth of vouchers appears to offer financial stability for congregations while at the same time diminishing their religious activities. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23159 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580833 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel M. Hungerman,Kevin J. Rinz,Jay Frymark. Beyond the Classroom: The Implications of School Vouchers for Church Finances. 2017. |
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| w23159.pdf（336KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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