School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?) / Caroline M. Hoxby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoxby, Caroline M.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8873.

NBER working paper series no. w8873

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

School Choice and School Productivity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.

Summary:

A school that is more productive is one that produces higher achievement in its pupils for each dollar it spends. In this paper, I comprehensively review how school choice might affect productivity. I begin by describing the importance of school productivity, then explain the economic logic that suggests that choice will affect productivity, and finish by presenting much of the available evidence on school choice and school productivity. The most intriguing evidence comes from three important, recent choice reforms: vouchers in Milwaukee, charter schools in Michigan, and charter schools in Arizona. I show that public school students' achievement rose significantly and rapidly in response to competition, under each of the three reforms. Public school spending was unaffected, so the productivity of public schools rose, dramatically in the case in Milwaukee.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2002.