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How Can Progressive Vouchers Help the Poor Benefit from School Choice? Evidence from the Chilean Voucher System

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  • Josefa Aguirre

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This work considers a major educational reform in Chile that increased vouchers by 50 percent for students in the lowest 40 percent of the income distribution. This increased the revenues schools received for these students and lowered the relative prices of private voucher schools for eligible parents. I use a national data set to implement a regression discontinuity design (RDD) exploiting that eligibility is a discontinuous function of a socioeconomic ranking. Results reject that eligible students chose schools with higher test scores or socioeconomic status and that these students are doing better than noneligible students in math and language test scores.

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  • Josefa Aguirre, 2022. "How Can Progressive Vouchers Help the Poor Benefit from School Choice? Evidence from the Chilean Voucher System," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 57(3), pages 956-997.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:57:y:2022:i:3:p:956-997
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0318-9386R2
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    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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