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 …

public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability … academic performance is smaller than that implied by simple OLS estimates that do not control for school choice. Finally, the …

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …

This paper analyzes the effect of school vouchers on student sorting — defined as a flight to private schools by high …-income and committed public-school students — and whether vouchers can be designed to reduce or eliminate it. Much of the ….S. voucher programs require a private school to accept all students unless it is oversubscribed and to pick students randomly if …