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 …

school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school … vouchers. Households that differ in both their income and in the ability level of their children choose between school … districts, between neighborhoods within their school district, and between the local public school or a menu of private school …

secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were … administrative records suggest the PACES program increased secondary school completion rates by 15-20 percent. Correcting for the …

-scale programs subsidizing private school attendance have affected the fiscal outcomes of private schools and the affordability of a …

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 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 …