Search Results - subject:"voucher program"

The Effect of School Voucher Spending on Initial Earnings

Correa, Juan A.; Parro, Francisco; Sánchez, Rafael - 2021

resources received by schools from a targeted voucher program implemented in Chile. We merge this dataset with education and …

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

-indifferences estimations show that, even after a decade, awareness of the voucher program was significantly higher in the treatment group. We …

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Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools?

Figlio, David N.; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2021

In this paper we study the effects of the threat of school vouchers and school stigma in Florida on the performance of "low-performing" schools using student-level data from a subset of districts. Estimates of the change in school-level high-stakes test scores from the first year of the reform...

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Results of a School Voucher Experiment : The Case of Washington, D.C. After Two Years

Wolf, Patrick; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. - 2021

In the fall of 1997, the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF) announced the expansion of a privately funded school voucher … program in Washington, D.C. originally established in 1993. In the spring of 1998, over six thousand students from public and …

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Using Experimental Economics to Measure the Effects of a Natural Educational Experiment on Altruism

Bettinger, Eric; Slonim, Robert - 2021

intervention, a voucher program, affected students' altruism. The voucher program used a lottery to allocate scholarships among low … experimental economic methods, we measure the effects of the intervention on children's altruism. We also measure the voucher … program's effects on parents' altruism and several academic outcomes including test scores. We find that the educational …

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Teacher labor markets, school vouchers, and student cognitive achievement : Evidence from Chile

Tincani, Michela M. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 1, pp. 173-216

I use administrative and survey data from Chile and a structural model to evaluate teacher policies in a market-based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on the self-selection of individuals into teaching and...

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Food vs. Food Stamps : Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences between these policies, the Government of Indonesia randomly phased in the...

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The effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings

Correa, Juan A.; Parro, Francisco; Sánchez, Rafael - 2021

resources received by schools from a targeted voucher program implemented in Chile. We merge this dataset with education and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589859

Providing Vouchers and Value Information for Already Free Eye Exams Increases Uptake Among a Low-Income Minority Population : A Randomized Trial

Kacker, Seema; Macis, Mario; Gajwani, Prateek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study whether vouchers with and without value information encourage completion of already free follow-up appointments in a low-income minority population in Baltimore City referred for possible eye disease. Between May 2017 and September 2018, 821 individuals referred for free follow-up from...

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Financial support to Polish families regarding leisure, including those from rural areas, during the COVID-19 pandemic : an example of a tourist voucher

Kacprzak, Marzena; Wielewska, Izabela - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 4, pp. 706-722

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