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 …

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 …

half the cost of private secondary school. Since many vouchers were allocated by lottery, we use differences in outcomes … points more likely to have attended private school, had completed .1 more years of schooling, and were about 10 percentage …

math and reading scores. First, since schools selected students randomly from among their applicants if the school was … as an instrumental variable for attendance at a private school. Finally, I used a fixed-effects strategy to compare … Parental Choice Program appears to have had a positive effect on the math achievement of those who attended a private school …

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

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 …

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 …