We use quantile treatment effects estimation to examine the consequences of a school voucher experiment across the … distribution of student achievement. In 1997, the School Choice Scholarship Foundation granted $1,400 private school vouchers to a … randomly-selected group of low-income New York City elementary school students. Prior research indicates that this program had …

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 …