Public Funding and Private Schooling across Countries
研究了五个国家的公共资助对私立学校学生成绩的影响，发现公共资助扩大私立学校入学率并未消除其相对于公立学校的成绩优势，但政府限制私立学校决策权会抵消这一优势。
Production studies that have examined the relative performance of students in private and public schools typically find that the average student achievement in private schools exceeds that of the average student in public schools. The relatively small enrollment of students in private schools seriously limits policy predictions concerning the effects of vouchers and other policy reforms in the United States. The institutional arrangements for providing and funding schooling vary greatly across countries. This article examines these arrangements in five countries. Using a data set that measures achievement in mathematics, empirical results show that public funding and its subsequent effect of expanded enrollment in the private sector do not erase the superior performance of private schools relative to public ones. Government restrictions on private schools' decision-making powers can negate the superior performance of private schools.