We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

accountability system's ranking of schools based on performance measures, and of a unique school level expenditure data set, to make … causal estimates of the effect of being ranked as "low-performing" on school spending decisions. The results indicate that …

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 …