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Chumacero, Romulo A.; Gomez, Daniel; Paredes, Ricardo D. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
One of the pillars of the educational voucher system is that competition among schools to attract students would improve the quality of the education. Surveys to parents and previous work suggested that families rank the distance of the school from their home as the most important factor for choosing a school. They also suggest that parents…
Descriptors: School Choice, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers
Anand, Priyanka; Mizala, Alejandra; Repetto, Andrea – Economics of Education Review, 2009
This paper estimates the impact of private education on the academic achievement of low-income students in Chile. To deal with selection bias, we use propensity score matching to compare the test scores of reduced-fee paying, low-income students in fee-charging private voucher schools to those of similar students in public schools and free private…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement