This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It … affect public school incentives differently and induce different responses from them. It analyzes two voucher programs in the … improvement will exceed that under the Milwaukee-type program. Using school-level scores from Florida and Wisconsin and a …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …

We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …

We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …

We use quantile treatment effects estimation to examine the consequences of a school voucher experiment across the … distribution of student achievement. In 1997, the School Choice Scholarship Foundation granted $1,400 private school vouchers to a … randomly-selected group of low-income New York City elementary school students. Prior research indicates that this program had …

In Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market-oriented school system with liberal … entry conditions for voucher-funded private providers. National standardized tests are graded at the local school and what …