Supplying Choice: An Analysis of School Participation Decisions in Voucher Programs in Washington, DC, Indiana, and Louisiana

Sude, Yujie; DeAngelis, Corey A.; Wolf, Patrick J.

doi:10.1080/15582159.2017.1345232

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“…The few statistically significant control variable effects are also worth noting Table . As found by Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf (), higher tuition schools in our sample are less likely to participate, all else equal. In our sample, a $1,000 increase in tuition is associated with around a 0.63 percentage point, or about a 2.52 percent, reduction in certain program participation, suggesting that more expensive schools are less likely to participate in private school choice programs.…”

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“…All else equal, an increase in the regulatory burden associated with program participation should decrease the likelihood that private school leaders elect to participate. However, while other studies find that more voucher program regulation is generally correlated with lower rates of program participation (DeAngelis and Burke, ; Stuit and Doan, ; Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf, ), none of the existing empirical studies provides causal evidence that certain regulations reduce school leaders’ stated intentions regarding their participation in a hypothetical private school choice program.…”

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“…They further suggested that the low quality of private schools participating in the program could have led to the negative test score effects. Other researchers found that lower‐quality private schools—as measured by tuition and enrollment levels—were more likely to participate in the program (Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf, ). Only a third of the private schools in the highly regulated LSP chose to participate, while less regulated programs enjoyed much higher participation rates (Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf, ).…”

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“…Other researchers found that lower‐quality private schools—as measured by tuition and enrollment levels—were more likely to participate in the program (Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf, ). Only a third of the private schools in the highly regulated LSP chose to participate, while less regulated programs enjoyed much higher participation rates (Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf, ). DeAngelis and Hoarty () largely confirmed the findings of Sude, DeAngelis, and Wolf, while adding customer reviews as a third measure of private school quality negatively predictive of participation in a voucher program.…”

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The Effects of Regulations on Private School Choice Program Participation: Experimental Evidence from Florida

DeAngelis

Burke

Wolf

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. This is the first experimental evaluation of the effects of various regulations on the willingness of private school leaders to participate in a hypothetical school voucher program. Methods. We use surveys to randomly assign different regulations to 2,958 private school leaders in Florida and ask them whether they would participate in a new private school choice program during the following school year. Results. We received responses from 327 private school leaders. Relative to no additional regulations, our most conservative models find that open-enrollment mandates reduce the likelihood that private schools are certain to participate by 17 percentage points or 70 percent. State standardized testing requirements reduce the likelihood that private schools are certain to participate by 12 percentage points or 46 percent. We find no evidence to suggest that the prohibition of copayment affects participation overall. We find limited evidence to suggest that regulations are more likely to deter higher-quality schools.as measured by tuition levels and enrollment trends. Conclusion. These results suggest that various regulations of private school choice programs come with costs and perhaps unintended consequences.

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The Effects of Regulations on Private School Choice Program Participation: Experimental Evidence from Florida

DeAngelis

Burke

Wolf

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Private school choice researchers hypothesize that "market-oriented programs will have positive effects on student achievement" (Sude, DeAngelis, & Wolf, 2018). Research shows that families that use scholarships to attend private schools list academic quality on the top (Cohn, 1997).…”

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Parental preferences in the choice for a specialty school

Prieto

Agüero-Valverde

Zarrate-Cardenas

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Journal of School Choice

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Choosing a specialty school involves huge challenges for families. This research aims to understand the behavioral process that leads families to choose among various specialty school programs. Discrete choice models, based on revealed preferences data from middle school applications in a large school district in Florida, are estimated using both, the top and all-ranked alternatives. This study returns insights into geographic settings, theme specialties and socioeconomic characteristics of applicants, schools and their relationships. Distance from home, the school's academic quality, the school's theme specialty, and the high percentage of applicant's own race are found to be the strongest factors related to the decision to apply.

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Re‐examining the functioning of educational markets: Does the private‐subsidised sector contribute to school diversification?

Carrasco,

Gutiérrez

2023

British Educational Res J

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This article offers new empirical evidence regarding the limits of the premises of educational privatisation policies. Educational markets rely on the assumption that private participation has the potential to boost school diversification and open new educational opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Using a fresh empirical approach, we draw on the Chilean case to investigate this rationale, which remains a controversial issue in the global educational discussion regarding privatisation. We examine the assumption of diversification by analysing three aspects: the attributes used by private subsidised schools to position themselves in the educational market (‘Value Proposition’), the extent to which they embody these stated attributes and the alignment between them and parental preferences. Based on surveys and administrative records, our findings suggest that although schools display clear identities to position themselves in the educational market, there is also a mismatch between what some types of schools offer and what families receive. Our data also reveal a high level of social stratification between school types which cannot only be explained based on parental preferences or school admissions. We interpret the unfulfilled promise of diversification as a failure in the privatisation process. Based on these findings, we discuss the policy‐related factors of incoherent and unequal diversification in the Chilean educational system.

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Supplying Choice: An Analysis of School Participation Decisions in Voucher Programs in Washington, DC, Indiana, and Louisiana

Cited by 42 publications

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The Effects of Regulations on Private School Choice Program Participation: Experimental Evidence from Florida

The Effects of Regulations on Private School Choice Program Participation: Experimental Evidence from Florida

Parental preferences in the choice for a specialty school

Re‐examining the functioning of educational markets: Does the private‐subsidised sector contribute to school diversification?

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