We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the … school choice becomes available in a student's educational path. We find that the impacts of vouchers on PSE outcomes are …

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 …

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 …

residential segregation within larger municipalities makes a choice of private alternatives less attractive. -- School choice …

groups or individuals who see a personal advantage in more school choice, such as parents of school-age children, urban …-income groups, and individuals with a teaching qualification oppose more school choice. The analyses also indicate differences … be. -- school choice ; survey ; private schools ; education vouchers …

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …