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Record Nr.

UNINA9910693501603321

Autore

Epple Dennis

Titolo

Educational Vouchers and Cream Skimming / / Dennis Epple, Richard Romano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w9354

Classificazione

I2

H42

Altri autori (Persone)

RomanoRichard

Soggetti

Education and Research Institutions

Publicly Provided Private Goods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

November 2002.

Sommario/riassunto

Epple and Romano (1998) show equilibrium provision of education by public and private schools has the latter skim off the wealthiest and most-able students, and flat-rate vouchers lead to further cream skimming.  Here we study voucher design that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming.  Conditioning vouchers on student ability without restriction on participating schools' policies fails to effect significantly cream skimming.  However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without increased stratification.  This can be accomplished while allowing voluntary participation in the voucher system and without tax increases.