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School Choice in Chile: Looking at the Demand Side
Gallego, Francisco; Hernando, Andrés - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2009
How do parents choose among schools when they are allowed to do so? In this paper, we analyze detailed information of 70,000 fourth-graders attending about 1,200 publicly subsidized schools in the context of the Chilean voucher system. We model the school choice of a household as a discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002717
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On the Determinants and Implications of School Choice: Semi-Structural Stimulations for Chile
Gallego, Francisco A.; Hernando, Andres E. - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2008)
This paper studies the implications of school choice in the context of the Chilean quasivoucher system. We use information of school choices of about 80,000 students that lived in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago in Chile in 2002 and the results of the discrete choice model estimated in Gallego...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021338
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On the Determinants and Implications of School Choice: Semi-Structural Simulations for Chile
Gallego, Francisco; Hernando, Andrés E. - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2008
This paper studies the implications of school choice in the context of the Chilean quasivoucher system. We use information of school choices of about 80,000 students that lived in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago in Chile in 2002 and the results of the discrete choice model estimated in Gallego...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730241
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Education and selective vouchers
Piolatto, Amedeo - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2010
vouchers. Chen and West (2000) predict that voters' attitudes towards selective vouchers (SV) may be dif- ferent. They claim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540697
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Private versus Public Schools in Post-Apartheid South African Cities: Theory and Policy Implications
Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
publicly financed by an income tax are then considered: transportation subsidies, private-school vouchers and public school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136774
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The Transition from Welfare to Work
Lemke, Robert J.; Witt, Robert J.; Witte, Ann Dryden - School of Economics, University of Surrey - 2004
We consider the effects the child care market, child care vouchers, early childhood education programs, and welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005748078
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Education and selective vouchers
Piolatto, Amedeo - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2009
The literature on vouchers often concludes that a voucher-based system cannot be the outcome of a majority vote. This … paper shows that it is possible to propose selective vouchers (of exogenous value) such that the majority of voters are in … favour of selective vouchers. As long as the introduction of vouchers does not undermine the existence of public schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005515946
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Public Education, Communities, and Vouchers
Prado, María J. Luengo; Volij, Oscar - Oscar Volij - 1999
This paper examines the effects of school vouchers on public school quality in a simple two-community model with local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005562440
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037313
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What triggers school improvement? Evidence from a court induced change in Florida's A+ accountability plan
Siegler, Benedikt - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court ended the state funded voucher program which allowed students of repeatedly failing public schools to transfer to a private school. This gives us the unique opportunity to evaluate the incentive character of a private school competition threat in school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904384