This article analyzes the constitutionality of the A school vouchers plan enacted by Florida in 2000. Although the … Supreme Court had not (at the time) definitively ruled on the constitutionality of school vouchers, this article argued that …

public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability … academic performance is smaller than that implied by simple OLS estimates that do not control for school choice. Finally, the …

accrues largely to the parents of school children and to other adult residents of the community. Having children in a local … school enables voting adults to get to know one another better, which in turn reduces the transaction costs of providing … by Robert Putnam. The 1960s peak of his social capital indicators coincides with the peak in the number of school …

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 …