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Education and selective vouchers

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Amedeo Piolatto (Universidad de Alicante)

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The literature on vouchers often concludes that a voucher-based system cannot be the outcome of a majority vote. This paper shows that it is possible to propose selective vouchers (of exogenous value) such that the majority of voters are in favour of selective vouchers. As long as the introduction of vouchers does not undermine the existence of public schools, introducing selective vouchers induces a Pareto improvement. Some agents use vouchers in equilibrium to buy private education, while the poorest agents continue attending public schools and enjoy an increase in per-capita expenditure.

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Paper provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie) in its series Working Papers. Serie AD with number 2009-10.

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Date of creation: Mar 2009
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Keywords: positive public economics; education; vouchers; voting.;

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H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance
I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other
D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General

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