This paper examines the link between private school enrollment rates and public school expenditures. Using a panel of New York State school districts, models are estimated in which public school spending and private school enrollment rates are endogenously determined. The results indicate the...

In 1990, Wisconsin became the first state in the country to provide vouchers to low income students to attend non-sectarian private schools. In this paper, I use a variety of estimation strategies and samples to estimate the effect of the program on math and reading scores. First, since schools...