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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Böhlmark, Anders | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Lindahl, Mikael | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2008-09-29 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-07-07T11:31:27Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-07-07T11:31:27Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2008 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pi | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008100922 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35011 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA discussion papers 3691 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I22 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Private schooling | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | choice | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | competition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | educational achievement | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Allgemeinbildende Schule | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Privatschule | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Voucher | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wettbewerb | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bildungsniveau | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schweden | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 578628430 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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