School vouchers in practice: competition will not hurt you

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sandström, FM; Bergström, F
• 署名单位: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.03.004
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 351-380
• 关键词: public education; independent schools; Student achievement; school vouchers; school choice; sample selection model; panel data model; instrumental variable estimation

摘要

Since the introduction of school vouchers in 1992, independent and public schools in Sweden operate on equal terms. We analyze the effects of competition on the public schools using data on the results of 28,000 ninth graders. Because the decision on which school to attend is a choice variable, sample selection models are used. To account for the potential endogeneity of the share of students attending independent schools, we use instrumental variable estimation. We also estimate panel data models on 288 Swedish municipalities. Our findings support the hypothesis that school results in public schools improve due to competition. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.