,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal …

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … profit from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing … untargeted voucher programs in promoting labor market outcomes through adult education. …

data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of … 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We explore diverse responses by local governments in terms of proportion … redistribute funds from schools with high student-teacher ratio (S/T) to ones with low S/T. Nevertheless, the reform has changed …

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … developed very differently across municipalities over time as a result of this reform. We estimate the impact of an increase in … time, and control for differential pre-reform and concurrent municipality trends. We find that an increase in the private …