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- Title
Impact of Voucher Design on Public School Performance: Evidence from Florida and Milwaukee Voucher Programs.
- Authors
Chakrabarti, Rajashri
- Abstract
This article compares two alternative voucher designs implemented in the U.S. The Milwaukee program was a "voucher shock" program that made low-income students eligible for vouchers. The Florida program was an accountability-tied voucher program that faced failing schools with "threat of vouchers" and stigma. In the context of a formal theoretical model, the study argues that the threatened schools will improve under the Florida-type program and this improvement will exceed that of the corresponding treated schools under the Milwaukee-type program. Using school-level scores from Florida and Wisconsin, and a difference-in-differences estimation strategy in trends, it then finds strong support in favor of these predictions.
- Subjects
FLORIDA; WISCONSIN; PUBLIC schools; LOW-income students; EVIDENCE; SOCIAL stigma
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 1, p349
- ISSN
2194-6108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejeap-2012-0037