Does School Privatization Improve Educational Achievement? Evidence from Sweden's Voucher Reform
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Keywords
private schooling; choice; competition; educational achievement;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2008-09-29 (Education)
- NEP-EEC-2008-09-29 (European Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2008-09-29 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2008-09-29 (Labour Economics)
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