The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile's voucher program

By Chang-tai Hsieh, Miguel S. Urquiola. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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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”
Bringing the Schools Back in: The Stratification of Educational Achievement in the Chilean Voucher System. (2012, background): “One possible answer is that parents care about peer socioeconomic makeup in itself, regardless of achievement (see Elacqua et al., 2006; Hsieh and Urquiola, 2006).”
What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa (2017, background): “In addition, however, in many settings, the growth in enrollment in private schools may have diluted the quality of public education, resulting in the exit of better-off 23 children and increased economic stratification (Hsieh and Urquiola 2006).”
What Works to Improve the Quality of Student Learning in Developing Countries (2015, methodology): “In Chile, a similar voucher programme was analysed by Contreras (2001), Hsieh and Urquiola (2006) and Anand et al. (2009).”
School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools' Effectiveness. NBER Working Paper No. 13676. (2007, neutral): “8 Hsieh and Urquiola (2006), for instance, indicate that roughly one thousand private schools entered the market in the decade following the introduction of voucher financing.”
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education (2009, methodology): “Furthermore, for many years following the voucher reform of 1981, overall education quality in Chile did not improve (Hsieh and Urquiola 2006).”
The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence (2007, neutral): “3 Examples of studies of school choice effects are: Cullen, Jacob and Levitt (2005, 2006) looking at the choice among public high schools in Chicago; Hoxby (2000) and Urquiola (2005) estimating the effects of choice between school districts in the US (the so-called Tiebout choice); Gibbons, Machin a”
SCHOOL CHOICE AND EQUITY: CURRENT POLICIES IN OECD COUNTRIES AND A LITERATURE REVIEW (2012, background): “This report was reviewed by other researchers: Ladd (2003) reviews Hoxby‟s findings and suggests an alternative explanation: to the extend it is the students with below-average test scores who opt out of the traditional public schools, these schools experience higher gain in test scores, not due to ”
Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (2016, neutral): “Giving one child a voucher to go to private school might improve her future, but doing so for everyone can decrease the quality of education for those children who are left in the public schools (see the contrasting studies of Angrist et al. (2002) and Hsieh and Urquiola (2006)).”