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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes Evidence from Sweden´s Large Scale Voucher Reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2013

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Sweden’s School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...

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The Mechanism Design Approach to Student Assignment

Pathak, Parag A. - In: Annual Review of Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 513-536

The mechanism design approach to student assignment involves the theoretical, empirical, and experimental study of systems used to allocate students into schools around the world. Recent practical experience designing systems for student assignment has raised new theoretical questions for the...

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Economic Modeling and Analysis of Educational Vouchers

Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 159-183

The analysis of educational vouchers has evolved from market-based analogies to models that incorporate distinctive …

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The relative effectiveness of government and private schools in Pakistan: are girls worse off?

Aslam, Monazza - In: Education Economics 17 (2009) 3, pp. 329-354

Recent evidence from Pakistan points to significant pro-male bias within households in the allocation of education expenditures. This raises two important questions. Is less spent on enrolled girls than boys through differential school-type choice for the two sexes; for example, through a...

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Respecting Priorities when Assigning Students to Schools

EHLERS, Lars - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006

We consider the problem of assigning students to schools on the basis of priorities. Students are allowed to have equal priority at a school. We characterize the efficient rules which weakly/strongly respect students’ priorities. When priority orderings are not strict, it is not possible to...

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Early tracking and the misfortune of being young

Schneeweis, Nicole; Zweimüller, Martina - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009

In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the age of 10. We argue that early tracking creates inefficiencies because the earlier the track choice has to be made, the more it is influenced by factors other than innate...

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Favored child? School choice within the family

Chumacero, Rómulo; Paredes, Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We study school choice within the family, analyzing how birth order, gender, innate talent, and family financial restrictions impact the parents´ decision to prioritize the education of one or more of the children over the rest. We find that parents, particularly from lower income homes, are...

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Promoting scientific faculties: does it work? Evidence from Italy

Maestri, Virginia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The object of this article is to assess the causal impact of promotions policies on students' choice of the field of study. We match the records of the students enrolled in two large universities with the records of the participating schools. Within the participating schools, some students took...

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School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Recent Evidence and Remaining Questions

Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Barrow, Lisa - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 17-42

In this article, we review the empirical evidence on the impact of education vouchers on student achievement and … gains for students offered education vouchers, most of which are not statistically different from zero. Furthermore, what … vouchers suggests that one should remain wary that large improvements would result from a more comprehensive voucher system …

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