Varun Gauri. School Choice in Chile: Two Decades of Educational Reform. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Photographs, tables, bibliography, index, 158 pp.; hardcover $45, paperback…

By A. Bernasconi. 2000

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The Effectiveness of Public, Catholic, and Non-Religious Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System (2001, background): “3. For further details on the Chilean reforms, see Espinola (1993), Gauri (1998) , Jofre (1988), and Parry (1997b).”
Bringing the Schools Back in: The Stratification of Educational Achievement in the Chilean Voucher System. (2012, background): “Evidence shows that private-voucher schools intensively use selection mechanisms such as entry exams and parental interviews to shape their student bodies (Gauri, 1998).”
Innovation in Education Markets: Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Competition and Choice in Charter Schools (2003, background): “…to innovations in organizational behaviors in many cases, whereas classroom practices are relatively familiar and often revert to traditionalist modes of curriculum and instruction (Gauri, 1998; Lauder et al., 1999; Lubienski, 2001c; Whitty, Power, & Halpin, 1998; Woods, Bagley, & Glatter, 1998).”
SCHOOL CHOICE AND EQUITY: CURRENT POLICIES IN OECD COUNTRIES AND A LITERATURE REVIEW (2012, background): “A study in Chile also show that parents have tenuous sources of information and are largely incorrect when asked to identify high quality and low quality schools (Gauri, 1999).”
The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile's voucher program (2006, background): “As previously mentioned, private schools are allowed to reject students, and Gauri (1998) presents evidence that the majority of them do exercise this 39 For suggestive evidence of this in the U.S., see Rothstein (2004).”
The Potential Impact of Large-Scale Voucher Programs (2000, background): “The 1980 reform implemented by Chile's military government bears a striking resemblance to Milton Friedman's original proposal, which is unsurprising given the influence of University of Chicago-trained economists in the design of Chilean education policy (Gauri, 1998; Valdes, 1995).”