This paper analyzes the effect of school vouchers on student sorting — defined as a flight to private schools by high …-income and committed public-school students — and whether vouchers can be designed to reduce or eliminate it. Much of the ….S. voucher programs require a private school to accept all students unless it is oversubscribed and to pick students randomly if …

The debate over the use of public funds to finance private school education has waged for well over forty years. The … contemporary debate on school vouchers centers on the impact of vouchers on public education budgets. While the impact of vouchers … school vouchers is that only the general goals and objectives of public education are considered. For example, most …

Using data from the most recent (2015-16) round of Private School Universe Survey, I examine the types of private … schools that decide to participate in school voucher programs in seven locations. Regression analysis indicates that more … schools that focus on serving home-school students are less likely to participate …

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

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 …