School Choice, Stratification and Information on School Performance: Lessons from Chile

Patrick McEwan, Miguel Urquiola and Emiliana Vegas

Economía Journal, 2008, vol. Volume 8 Number 2, issue Spring 2008, 1-42

Abstract: Chile´s experience suggests that we have much to learn about the consequences of education reform, especially school choice, and why it has not resulted in learning gains of the magnitude one might have predicted. This paper addresses these issues in two ways. First, we review the previous literature on the impact of choice in Chile, focusing on the effects on average student achievement and stratification.To shed additional light on this debate, we present new evidence from a regression-discontinuity design that supports previous findings that school choice-at least as it has been implemented until now-has increased stratification while having little effect on average achievement. Second, we explore some factors that may explain why the evolution of school quality in Chile has been disappointing. We focus on the difficulties researchers have encountered in generating and interpreting information on school performance."

Keywords: School choice; stratification; student performance; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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