We examine quantitatively why uniform vouchers have repeatedly suffered electoral defeats against the current system where public and private schools coexist. We argue that the topping-up option available under uniform vouchers is not suficiently valuable for the poorer households to prefer the...

We compare a uniform voucher regime against the status quo mix of public and private education, focusing on the distribution of welfare gains and losses across house-holds by income. We argue that the topping-up option available under uniform vouchers is not sufficiently valuable for the poorer...

This paper considers a major educational reform implemented in Chile, one that increased voucher payments by 50% for students in the lowest 40% of the income distribution. This increased the revenues that schools received for serving low-income students and lowered the relative prices of private...

This article analyzes the constitutionality of the A school vouchers plan enacted by Florida in 2000. Although the Supreme Court had not (at the time) definitively ruled on the constitutionality of school vouchers, this article argued that the plan should endure a federal Establishment Clause...

In Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market-oriented school system with liberal entry conditions for voucher-funded private providers. National standardized tests are graded at the local school and what ultimately matters to students are teacher-set grades....