Estimating the cream skimming effect of school choice.

Autor/inn/en	Altonji, Joseph G.; Huang, Ching-i; Taber, Christopher R.
Titel	Estimating the cream skimming effect of school choice.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2010), 42, [8] S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. 16579
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungspolitik; Bildungsertrag; Schule; Allgemein bildende Schule; Privatschule; Wettbewerb; Arbeitspapier; Auswahl; USA
Abstract	"We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative to weak students, and the importance of peers. We use the formula to investigate the effects of a voucher program on the high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the characteristics of public school students, to estimate a model of the private school entrance decision, and to estimate peer group effects on graduation. We supplement the econometric estimates with a wide range of alternative assumptions about school choice and peer effects. We find that the cream skimming effect is negative but small and that this result is robust across our specifications"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/3