Responses of private and public schools to voucher funding

0392267 - NHÚ 2014 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Filer, Randall K. - Münich, Daniel
Responses of private and public schools to voucher funding.
Economics of Education Review. Roč. 34, June (2013), s. 269-285. ISSN 0272-7757. E-ISSN 1873-7382
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GBP402/12/G130
Institutional support: RVO:67985998
Keywords : educational finance * government expenditures and education * occupational choice
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
Impact factor: 1.146, year: 2013

The post-communist Czech Republic provides a laboratory in which to investigate possible responses to the adoption of universal education vouchers. Private schools appear to have arisen in response to distinct market incentives. Public schools facing private competition improve their performance. They spend a larger fraction of their resources on classroom instruction and significantly reduce class sizes. Furthermore, Czech public academic secondary schools facing significant private competition by 1996 substantially improved their relative success in obtaining university admissions for their graduates between 1996 and 1998. The rise of private schools, however, also spurred maneuvering by the administrations of public schools to preserve these schools’ entrenched position, pointing out how important it is that any voucher system be simple and leave as little opportunity as possible for discretionary actions on the part of implementing officials.
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