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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice : Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...

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Charter Schools' Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive Influence

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Parham, Katharine S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students' academic and other outcomes, the mechanisms behind those effects, and the influence of charter schools on nearby traditional public schools, almost three decades after the first charter school was...

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Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010

We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of...

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Charter schools' effectiveness, mechanisms, and competitive influence

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Parham, Katharine S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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The Immigrant Next Door : Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group, exploiting plausibly exogenous shocks to the ancestral composition of US counties. We combine several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit...

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

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A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools : The Role of Mobility, Targeting, and Private School Vouchers

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1999

This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...

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Educational Vouchers and Cream Skimming

Epple, Dennis - 2002

Epple and Romano (1998) show equilibrium provision of education by public and private schools has the latter skim off the wealthiest and most-able students, and flat-rate vouchers lead to further cream skimming. Here we study voucher design that would inject private-school competition and...

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Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia : Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

Angrist, Joshua - 2001

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 pupils from poor neighborhoods with vouchers that covered approximately half the cost of private secondary school. Since many vouchers were allocated by lottery, we use differences in outcomes between lottery winners and losers to assess program...

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