In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and … students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design …, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject to liquidity and credit constraints that is estimated using data …

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 … allows us to study both the individual and the aggregate effects of school choice (including spillovers). After two and four …

We study the effects of private school competition on public school students' test scores in the wake of Florida … to a more competitive private school landscape saw greater improvements in their test scores after the introduction of … private school options open to students. We find that greater degrees of competition are associated with greater improvements …

In this paper we study the effects of the threat of school vouchers and school stigma in Florida on the performance of … "low-performing" schools using student-level data from a subset of districts. Estimates of the change in school-level high …

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …

We use quantile treatment effects estimation to examine the consequences of a school voucher experiment across the … distribution of student achievement. In 1997, the School Choice Scholarship Foundation granted $1,400 private school vouchers to a … randomly-selected group of low-income New York City elementary school students. Prior research indicates that this program had …

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we … quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming …-person learning for longer periods than elementary schools (implying that younger children experienced less school closures than older …