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Article: The difference that choice makes; Economics focus; School choice.(Finance and Economics)(When American parents exercise choice in education, interesting things happen: public schools work better, demand for private schools subsides, good teachers do well and bad ones don't)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2001
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THE prospects for school vouchers in America, to create a kind of market in publicly funded education, look bleak. President Bush had said he was keen on the idea, but the education plan he proposed this week fails to take the idea very far, and what little it proposes on vouchers seems certain to be dropped in the end (see article). This is a shame-or so, at any rate, some fascinating new work on the effects of school choice suggests.
Caroline Hoxby of Harvard University has been working on different aspects of this issue for some time. Ms Hoxby's work inspires a kind of awe among many economists: for its clarity, its empirical thoroughness, and its wonderful ...