The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System

By Patrick Mcewan, M. Carnoy. 2000

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Peer effects on student achievement: evidence from Chile (2003, background): “system, see McEwan (2001) and McEwan and Carnoy (2000) .”
Low-cost private schools for the poor: what public policy is appropriate (2014, background): “Perhaps best known is the large-scale Chilean voucher program in which the government provides per-pupil vouchers for students to attend private schools (both those owned by private franchises and those independently owned) (Arenas, 2004; Elacqua et al., 2009; Hsieh and Urquiola, 2006; McEwan and Ca”
School Vouchers: A Critical View (2002, background): “More explicit evidence about the sector effect for a large-scale voucher program emerges from Chile, where the universal voucher program generated a large number of new for-pro t secular private schools that operated alongside the more established and somewhat better resourced Catholic schools.”
A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education: misleading analyses and failed policies (2008, background): “Skimming lowers the average achievement level in public schools, as found in Chile (Carnoy, 1998, 2000; Carnoy and McEwan 1999; McEwan and Carnoy 2000; Bellei 2005).”
Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward (2017, positive): “The geographical location (eight papers) and the number of education institutions in the area (four papers) may have effects on students’ performance, either directly or indirectly (McEwan and Carnoy, 2000).”
The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile's voucher program (2006, background): “The center-left coalitions in power since 1990 have chosen to focus their efforts on channeling additional resources to bvulnerableQ schools, increasing real educational spending and teacher salaries, and financially rewarding schools with high test scores.10 Nevertheless, the core of the system—the”
The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007, positive): “A less positive interpretation of vouchers in Chile is found in McEwan and Carnoy (2000) and of vouchers in general in McEwan (2000).”
Bringing the Schools Back in: The Stratification of Educational Achievement in the Chilean Voucher System. (2012, background): “McEwan and Carnoy (2000) and Hsieh and Urquiola (2006) found that private-voucher schools skim-off more advantaged families while relegating disadvantaged ones to the public sector, and that the net aggregate effect of competition on student performance is negligible.”
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education (2009, methodology): “A second generation of studies used better data and more sophisticated estimation methods (Bravo, Contreras, and Santhueza 1999; Carnoy and McEwan 2000; Mizala and Romaguera 2000; Vegas 2002).”
Home and Instruction Effects on Emergent Literacy in a Sample of Chilean Kindergarten Children (2009, background): “…has been much debate about the relative efficiency and quality of voucher, private, and public schools (Hsieh & Urquiola, 2003; McEwan, 2001, 2002; McEwan & Carnoy, 2000), especially as the number of voucher schools has increased to the point that today they serve almost 50% of the school…”
The Effectiveness of Public, Catholic, and Non-Religious Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System (2001, background): “This is not the first paper to compare private and public achievement in Chile (Aedo & Larranaga, 1994; Parry, 1996, 1997c; Aedo, 1998; McEwan & Carnoy, 2000 ).”
Determinants of primary education outcomes in developing countries (2004, background): “McEwan and Carnoy (2000) reach similar conclusions about the voucher programs in Chile.”
The Potential Impact of Large-Scale Voucher Programs (2000, background): “3~ In McMillan (1997), for example, parents have the option of exit from public schools and voice, which encompasses parental monitoring of school officials.”