math and reading scores. First, since schools selected students randomly from among their applicants if the school was … as an instrumental variable for attendance at a private school. Finally, I used a fixed-effects strategy to compare … Parental Choice Program appears to have had a positive effect on the math achievement of those who attended a private school …

-scale programs subsidizing private school attendance have affected the fiscal outcomes of private schools and the affordability of a …

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP …) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a … allows us to study both the individual and the aggregate effects of school choice (including spillovers). After two and four …

We estimate effects on educational outcomes from the expansion of the independent school sector in Sweden, which … that an increase in the share of independent school students improves average short‐ and long‐run outcomes, explained … primarily by external effects (e.g. school competition). For most outcomes, we observe significant effects first a decade after …

abandoned. Systems comparable with educational voucher scheme, also known as school choice system, were introduced in the Czech … Republic and Hungary in the early 1990s. The newly established system of school financing allocates public funds according to … the number of students enrolled in a school. Accredited non-state schools, private and religious, are also eligible for …