2017 - Urquiola - What is the net effect of vouchers on aggregate educational performance

https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20150679
Dennis Epple, Richard E. Romano, and Miguel Urquiola*


1. What effects do vouchers have on the students who use them?

2. Do vouchers induce nonrandom migration of students from public to private
schools, possibly lowering the achievement of students that remain in the
public sector via peer effects or other channels?

3. Do voucher programs pressure public schools to become more efficient, increasing the achievement of students that remain in the public sector?

4. What is the net effect of vouchers on aggregate educational performance?

5. What political-economy factors determine the existence and design of voucher programs?