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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21523
来源ID	Working Paper 21523
	School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature
	Dennis Epple; Richard E. Romano; Miguel Urquiola
发表日期	2015-09-07
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In this substantial body of work, many studies find insignificant effects of vouchers on educational outcomes; however, multiple positive findings support continued exploration. Specifically, the empirical research on small scale programs does not suggest that awarding students a voucher is a systematically reliable way to improve educational outcomes. Nevertheless, in some settings, or for some subgroups or outcomes, vouchers can have a substantial positive effect on those who use them. Studies of large scale voucher programs find student sorting as a result of their implementation, although of varying magnitude. Evidence on both small scale and large scale programs suggests that competition induced by vouchers leads public schools to improve. Moreover, research is making progress on understanding how vouchers may be designed to limit adverse effects from sorting while preserving positive effects related to competition. Finally, our sense is that work originating in a single case (e.g., a given country) or in a single research approach (e.g., experimental designs) will not provide a full understanding of voucher effects; fairly wide ranging empirical and theoretical work will be necessary to make progress.
主题	Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21523
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579198
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dennis Epple,Richard E. Romano,Miguel Urquiola. School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature. 2015.