Catholic High School Graduates Make Way More Money Than Everyone Else

Catholic High School Graduates Make Way More Money Than Everyone Else

Michael T. Owyang and E. Katarina Vermann at the St. Louis Fed are out with some fascinating research looking at school types versus income.

They compared private schools, public schools and Catholic schools under various conditions (rural versus urban, high versus low drop-out rate and starting teacher salary) with future outcome for students.

Here's what the found: If you control for certain aspects of students' socioeconomic backgrounds, students who attended Catholic schools and schools that had high teacher salaries yielded higher incomes for students. Sending your kid to a private school was mostly a push in terms of future earnings:

Correlation is merely suggestive, and that it does not follow that one ought to be send their children to Catholic schools if they want them to end up with higher incomes.

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Oct 24, 2012

I went to Catholic school and University, and knowing the kind of students that attend Catholic primary and high schools, I feel that this information is a little bit skewed. Catholic primary and high schools are expensive and tend to be attended by student who come from fairly privlaged backgrounds. I think its great to show that Catholic School students do well, but the money factor and people of power and influence that attend Catholic schools makes a big factor in outcome of students. I stayed away from the majority of those people who I went to school with because they went to Catholic School for superfical reasons. It was all about the money. It really wasn't about faith that much, or it was about learning about the faith so you could bend the rules. The bending of the rules came more out of Catholic University. I just remember what Fulton Sheen said about sending your kids to a Catholic school to have them only come out Atheist. I still apprecate and think Catholic Schools are important, but they are not too strong in religious formation. The only experience I had from Catholic schools in my religious formation, came out of volunteer service and a really really great Catholic school teacher who taught me the bible my freshman year, but she left after that first year. Catholic schools are good but they have some issues and it comes from being very money oriented. I can understand why, but it is very problematic when the money trumps the faith.