-fold increase in the number of private schools and almost a four-fold increase in the number of choice students. Moreover, due to …. This paper analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the impacts of these changes on public school performance in … impacts on public school incentives and performance are concerned. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and …

sorting where private schools can screen students. However, the publicly funded U.S. voucher programs require private schools … to accept all students unless oversubscribed and to pick students randomly if oversubscribed. This paper focuses on two … crucial features of the Milwaukee voucher program - random private school selection and the absence of topping up of vouchers …

that children from low-income families, indigenous groups and/or rural areas are less likely to finish primary school …-groups concentration and high dispersion of the population, are basic characteristics of municipalities with low primary school completion … that could be undertaken in the poorly performing school districts to improve their ability to improve their performance …

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …

they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school level data, a difference- in-differences estimation … programs on public schools typically focuses on student and mean school scores. This paper tries to go inside the black box to … strategy as well as a regression discontinuity analysis, I find that the threatened schools tended to focus more on students …

children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on … same class. Together these features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children s potential time in school to … identify its effects on test scores. We find that allowing disadvantaged pupils to start school one month earlier increases …

academic performance. We start by introducing a simple theoretical model in which students decide the optimal allocation of … using data from first year undergraduate students of economics in the academic year 1998-99 at the University of Ancona …