Similar Students, Different Choices: Who Uses a School Voucher in an Otherwise Similar Population of Students?

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 785-812

  Fleming, David J ^a   Cowen, Joshua M ^b   Witte, John F ^c   Wolf, Patrick J ^d  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Matching; Private schools; Program evaluation; School selection; School vouchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945183186     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: 15523535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124513511268     Document Type: Article

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