When schools compete, how do they compete? An assessment of Chile's nationwide school voucher program
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In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to any student wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1,000 private schools entered the market, and the private enrollment rate increased by 20 percentage points, with greater impacts in larger, more urban, and wealthier communities. Using di erences across roughly 300 municipalities, we show that the rst-order e ect of this program was increased sorting, as the \best" public school students switched to the private sector. We use a simple model to make the more general point that if choice leads to sorting, then one cannot determine its impact on achievement solely by assessing whether public schools improve in response to competition, or by measuring whether students bene t from attending private schools. Rather, one has to look at changes in aggregate outcomes in entire educational markets. Finally, using test scores, repetition rates, and grade for age as measures of achievement, we nd no evidence that the large reallocation of students from public to private schools improved average educational performance in Chile.
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When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An Assessment of Chile’s Nationwide School Voucher Program by Chang-Tai Hsieh, Princeton University
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تاریخ انتشار 2002