The Efficacy of Choice Threats within School Accountability Systems: Results from Legislatively Induced Experiments. PEPG 05-01.

By Martin R. West, Paul E. Peterson. 2006

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Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure. Working Paper 13. (2007, background): “More recent work by Figlio and Rouse (2006), West and Peterson (2006), and Chakrabarti (2006) find positive short-run effects of accountability on Florida student outcomes, at least in mathematics.”
International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review (2007, background): “In Florida, the threat of becoming subject to private-school choice if failing on the test has been shown to increase school performance particularly for disadvantaged students (West & Peterson, 2006).”
Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non‐technical guide (2011, background): “West and Peterson ( 2006 ) exploit discontinuities in a school accountability program in Florida at a specific performance grade to estimate whether the threat to very poorly performing public schools that their students obtain a voucher to attend private schools affects public schools’ performance.”
The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth (Part II) (2007, background): “Unfortunately, little thorough evaluation has been done of the choice possibilities, in large part because there is no obvious comparison group (i.e., choice is instituted for an entire country and there is no example of the no-choice alternative). In a cross-country comparison, students in countrie”