The effectiveness of private school franchises in Chile’s national voucher program
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Elacqua, Gregory
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Contreras Guajardo, Dante
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Salazar, Felipe
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Santos, Humberto
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2014-01-14T13:41:51Z
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2014-01-14T13:41:51Z
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2011-09
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School Effectiveness and School Improvement Vol. 22, No. 3, September 2011, 237–263
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DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2011.589858
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/128583
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Artículo de publicación ISI.
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Abstract
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There is persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some
argue that school franchises offer educational services more effectively than small
independent schools. Skeptics counter that large centralized operations create
hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster diseconomies of scale and that small
schools are more effective at promoting higher quality education. We can gain
insight into this debate by examining Chile’s national voucher program. This
paper uses 4th-grade data to compare achievement in private franchises, private
independent, and public schools in Chile. Our findings suggest that franchises
have a large advantage over independent schools, once student and peer attributes
and selectivity are controlled for. We also find that further disaggregating school
franchises widens the larger franchise advantage. We conclude that policies
oriented to create incentives for private school owners to join or start up a
franchise may have the potential for improving educational outcomes.