@techreport{Bohlmark2008Does,
abstract = {This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the 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 developed very differently across municipalities over time as a result of this reform. We estimate the impact of an increase in private enrolment on short, medium and long-term educational outcomes of all pupils using within-municipality variation over time, and control for differential pre-reform and concurrent municipality trends. We find that an increase in the private school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who choose an academic high school track. However, we do not find any impact on medium or long-term educational outcomes such as high school GPA, university attainment or years of schooling. We conclude that the first-order short-term effect is too small to yield lasting positive effects.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Anders B\"{o}hlmark and Mikael Lindahl},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I22; 330; Private schooling; choice; competition; educational achievement; Allgemeinbildende Schule; Privatschule; Voucher; Wettbewerb; Bildungsniveau; Schweden},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008100922},
number = {3691},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform},
type = {IZA discussion papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35011},
year = {2008}
}
