We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has … school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year …. These achievement drops persist through grade 10. We also find that middle school entry increases student absences and is … associated with higher grade 10 dropout rates. Transitions to high school in grade nine cause a smaller one-time drop in …

distribution of the PTC, general high schools and the proportion of high school age population are compared over the provinces to …

's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … support for financing public school. It is found that when the size of low-skilled immigrants is large, the education regime …

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by … differences between private and state school regarding organizational features that are differently suitable for students with …