NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHEN SCHOOLS COMPETE, HOW DO THEY.pdf

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHEN SCHOOLS COMPETE, HOW DO THEY COMPETE? AN ASSESSMENT OF CHILE’S NATIONWIDE SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM Chang-Tai Hsieh Miguel Urquiola Working Paper 10008 /papers/w10008 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 September 2003 For useful comments, we thank Harold Alderman, Roland Benabou, Julian Betts, Eric Bettinger, Stephen Coate, Angus Deaton, Milton Friedman, Varun Gauri, Roger Gordon, James Heckman, Patrick McEwan, Derek Neal, Lant Pritchett, Pilar Romaguera, Richard Romano, Cecilia Rouse, Norbert Schady, Ernesto Schiefelbein, and particularly David Card, Ken Chay, Darren Lubotsky, and Enrico Moretti. Marco Galván and Lottos Gutierrez provided outstanding research assistance. We thank Dante Contreras, Patrick McEwan, the Chilean Ministries of Education and Planning, and the National Statistics Institute for providing data. We worked on this project while at the World Bank’s Development Research Group (Hsieh as a visitor and Urquiola as staff), and are grateful for its hospitality. The Smith-Richardson Foundation provided generous financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2003 by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Miguel Urquiola. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An As