School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection …

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders … also find that youth received and redeemed the vouchers. However, we do not find significant short- or long-term effects on …

Milton Friedman is famous for his book title: “Free to Choose.” He also favors educational vouchers, which denies the … logical contradiction. Why is it important to assess whether Friedman’s views on educational vouchers are logically consistent … that vouchers be utilized for food, clothing or shelter; we see no relevant difference in the case of education. What is …

In Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market-oriented school system with liberal … entry conditions for voucher-funded private providers. National standardized tests are graded at the local school and what …

In an effort to reform K-12 education, policymakers have introduced school vouchers - scholarships that make students … from the outset, so that all low-income public school students became eligible for vouchers to transfer to private schools …. In contrast, schools in the Florida program were only threatened with vouchers, with students of a particular school …

In an effort to reform K-12 education, policymakers have introduced school vouchers - scholarships that make students … from the outset, so that all low-income public school students became eligible for vouchers to transfer to private schools …. In contrast, schools in the Florida program were only threatened with vouchers, with students of a particular school …

the nature of school facility investments, whether such investments actually change the physical condition of public … campaigns initiated and financed by local school districts, comparing districts where school capital bonds were either narrowly … approved or narrowly defeated by district voters. Overall, we find little evidence that school capital campaigns improve …