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 …

and empirically, the effects of these changes on public school performance (as measured by test scores) in Milwaukee. It … effects of public school incentives and performance. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and household …

determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

In 2002 the career of Colombian public school teachers was significantly reformed through the introduction of a … students' high school performance. We exploit the fact that the novel regulation applied only to newly hired teachers, whereas … schools. Using data at the school-year-subject level, we eliminate any school-level confounders and associate the proportion …

Students' out-of-school activities and time use can play a crucial role in facilitating school effectiveness. Using … affect the out-of-school activities of boys only, while private high schools affect the out-of-school activities of both … scores. The effects of school types on test performance weaken once students' out-of-school activities are controlled for …

A key assumption of school choice and competition policies is that parents' most important priority when choosing a … school (if not the only one), is the quality of the school. However, evidence about the school's attributes that in reality … drive parents' school choosing is still scarce. We use census data from a parents' survey in Chile, a country with a …

Can inequalities in private school access be bridged through a government mandate? Enacted in 2009, India's “Right to … compare the school choices of the targeted children and their elder siblings (not eligible for the mandate) between the …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …