Volume 35, Number 2 (Spring) 2000
Mizala, Alejandra, and Pilar Romaguera. 2000. "School Performance and Choice: The Chilean Experience." Journal of Human Resources 35(2): 392-417.
How to achieve quality in education is a topic of increasing concern throughout the world. Many countries have made a wide variety of reforms and spent an increasing amount of resources to improve the quality of education, but often the results have not lived up to expectations. Chile has made innovative reforms to its educational system. One of the most interesting has been the introduction of a voucher-type subsidy system and the entry of private agents in the market to provide free educational services. This paper examines the Chilean experience by analyzing educational performance in different types of school.
Alejandra Mizala and Pilar Romaguera are professors at the Center for Applied Economics, Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Chile. They gratefully acknowledge collaboration from Darío Farren and Claudio González, as well as financial support from FONDECYT ProjectN° 1980761. The data used in this study can be obtained beginning December 2000 through January 2003, but permission to use it must first be obtained from the Ministry of education.
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