ILLUSORY GAINS FROM CHILE'S TARGETED SCHOOL VOUCHER EXPERIMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Feigenberg, Benjamin; Yan, Rui; Rivkin, Steven
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uez023
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 2805-2832
• 关键词: competition; achievement; education; CHOICE

摘要

Chile implemented a targeted voucher programme in 2008 that increased funding for disadvantaged students at public and participating private schools by approximately 50%. This reform would be expected to raise average achievement in participating schools and to reduce the achievement gap related to socioeconomic status, and disadvantaged students did make fourth-grade test-score gains exceeding 0.2 standard deviations that other studies have attributed to the programme. However, we find only small increases in resources and school-switching and little evidence of competition-driven improvement, but a closing of the parental education and income gaps, raising doubts that the programme accounts for much of this convergence.