Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

The Swedish school system suffers from profound problems with teacher recruitment and retention, knowledge decline, and … marketization of education, we suggest that these problems regarding school quality are to no small extent a result of the Swedish … school system's unlikely combination of a postmodern view of truth and knowledge, the ensuing pedagogy of child …

school) rather than to other characteristics that are correlated with student quality (immigrant status, parental income …'s earnings or school hiring policies. …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …