School vouchers in practice: Competition will not hurt you

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 351-380

  Sandström, F Mikael ^a   Bergström, Fredrik ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

^b HUI   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Independent schools; Instrumental variable estimation; Panel data model; Public education; Sample selection model; School choice; School vouchers; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844278512     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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