Who Chooses, Who Refuses? Learning More from Students Who Decline Private School Vouchers

2010 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Cowen
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
School Vouchers

Competition and Private School Vouchers

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Rangazas
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
School Vouchers

scholarly journals Mobility, Targeting, and Private-School Vouchers

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J Nechyba
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
School District ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Private School ◽  
School Vouchers ◽  
School Voucher ◽  
The Impact

This paper uses general-equilibrium simulations to explore the role of residential mobility in shaping the impact of different private-school voucher policies. The simulations are derived from a three-district model of low-, middle-, and high-income school districts (calibrated to New York data) with housing stocks that vary within and across districts. In this model, it is demonstrated that school-district targeted vouchers are similar in their impact to nontargeted vouchers but vastly different from vouchers targeted to low-income households. Furthermore, strong migration effects are shown to significantly improve the likely equity consequences of voucher programs. (JEL I22, I28, H73)

scholarly journals Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Figlio ◽  
Cassandra M. D. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
School Vouchers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Competitive Effects ◽  
Voucher Program ◽  
Resource Levels ◽  
Student Composition

We use the introduction of a means-tested voucher program in Florida to examine whether increased competitive pressure on public schools affects students’ test scores. We find greater score improvements in the wake of the program introduction for students attending schools that faced more competitive private school markets prior to the policy announcement, especially those that faced the greatest financial incentives to retain students. These effects suggest modest benefits for public school students from increased competition. The effects are consistent across several geocoded measures of competition and isolate competitive effects from changes in student composition or resource levels in public schools. (JEL H75, I21, I22, I28)

scholarly journals School Choice as Community Disempowerment: Racial Rhetoric about Voucher Policy in Urban America

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742199212
Author(s):  
Richard Johnson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Private School ◽  
Community Control ◽  
School Vouchers ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Racial Authenticity ◽  
Black Politicians ◽  
Urban America ◽  
Using Data

Depictions of school choice offering greater individual and local autonomy are widespread, yet they sit uneasily with portrayals of such policies within African-American political discourse. This article analyses the ways in which opposition to publicly funded private school vouchers has been used as a cue to signal solidaristic ties to the African-American electorate. School choice is highly racialized. Black politicians have been known to campaign against school choice policies by presenting them as tools of White outsiders to break up and divide the Black community. Although opinion polls have indicated that a majority of African-American voters support education vouchers, in a campaign context school choice policies can be framed through the prisms of racial authenticity and community control. Using data drawn from interviews with political operatives and archival research in Newark, New Jersey, this article demonstrates that school choice can paradoxically be rendered as a policy of community disempowerment.

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