School vouchers in practice: competition will not hurt you

By F. Sandström, Fredrik Bergström. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers. Working Paper 46. (2010, unknown): “Bohlmark and Lindahl (2008) and Sandstrom and Bergstrom (2005) study the introduction of a voucher program in Sweden, but the principal available outcomes are grades, rather than objective measures of test performance.”
International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review (2007, background): “Sandstrom and Bergstrom (2005) and Bjorklund, Edin, Fredriksson, & Krueger (2004) provided evidence on significant positive effects of competition from privately operated schools on the performance of public schools in Sweden.”
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education (2009, background): “See also charter schools; concession schools; education accountability and student selection, 28 allowing profi t and not-for-profi t, 46, 66 contracting benefi ts, 63 publicly funded and privately managed, 24–25, 35 academic achievement, 63 improve effi ciency and quality, 62 subsidies and private ”
The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence (2007, unknown): “6 This includes the previous Swedish studies of private school effects: Ahlin (2003); Björklund et al. (2005); and Sandström and Bergström (2005).”
Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform (2015, unknown): “There are a few previous studies that have looked at the effects of Sweden’s independent schools on grades and test scores at the end of compulsory school (Ahlin, 2003, Björklund et al., 2005, and Sandström and Bergström, 2005).”
Choosing for quality or inequality: current perspectives on the implementation of school choice policy in Sweden (2010, background): “In the third corner we find research reports emanating from both conservative (Bergstrom and Sandstrom 2001 , 2007 ; Sandstrom 2002 ; Sandstrom and Bergstrom 2005 ) and left‐oriented think tanks (Lindgren 2005 , 2007 ), pervaded by a clear ideological agenda and thereby from the outset certain”
Causes of educational segregation in Sweden – school choice or residential segregation (2016, background): “Using the local share of independent school enrolment as a measure of school choice and competition, Ahlin (2003) found a significant positive effect on mathematics test scores (see also, Sandström & Bergström, 2005).”