Akabayashi, Hideo; Araki, Hiroko - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 25 (2011) 3, pp. 183-198
Although education voucher programs for students attending private high schools have existed in Japan for decades, to date there have been no studies that examine their effectiveness. In this study, we estimate the programs' preventative effect on dropout by using school-track level (academic or...