Why do education vouchers fail at the ballot box?

We compare a uniform voucher regime against the status quo mix of public and private education, focusing on the distribution of welfare gains and losses across house- holds by income. We argue that the topping-up option available under uniform vouchers is not sufficiently valuable for the poorer households, so the voucher regime is defeated at the polls. Our result depends critically on the opting-out feature in the current system.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Bearse, Peter ; Cardak, Buly A. ; Glomm, Gerhard ; Ravikumar, B.
Institutions:	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Subject:	Education \| Households

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 2011-032
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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