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 …

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 …

"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 heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong …