Effects of school reformon education and labor market performance: Evidence from Chile's universal voucher system.

ABSTRACT: This paper studies the effects of school reform in Chile, which adopted a nationwide school voucher program along with school decentralization reforms in 1981. Since then, Chile has had a relatively unregulated, competitive market in primary and secondary education. It therefore provides a unique setting in which to study how these reforms affected school attainment and labor market outcomes. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of school attendance and work decisions using panel data from the 2002 and 2004 waves of the Encuesta de Protección Social survey. Some individuals in the sample completed their schooling before the voucher reforms were introduced, while others had the option of using the vouchers over part or all of their schooling careers. The impacts of the voucher

SUBMITTER: Bravo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208354 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature