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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
EDUCATIONAL VOUCHERS AND CREAM SKIMMING
Dennis EppleRichard Romano
Working Paper 9354http://www.nber.org/papers/w9354
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138November 2002
We thank Roland Benabou, Jonathan Hamilton, David Sappington, two anonymous referees, and workshopparticipants at the 1998 NBER Summer Institute, the MacArthur/Brookings Seminar, Cornell University,Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of British Columbia,the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Pittsburgh forcomments, and the National Science Foundation and MacArthur Foundation for support. The views expressedherein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
© 2002 by Dennis Epple and Richard Romano. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed twoparagraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is givento the source.
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Educational Vouchers and Cream SkimmingDennis Epple and Richard RomanoNBER Working Paper No. 9354November 2002JEL No. I2, H42
ABSTRACT
Epple and Romano (1998) show equilibrium provision of education by public and private
schools has the latter skim off the wealthiest and most-able students, and flat-rate vouchers lead to
further cream skimming. Here we study voucher design that would inject private-school
competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning vouchers
on student ability without restriction on participating schools’ policies fails to effect significantly
cream skimming. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap
the benefits of school competition without increased stratification. This can be accomplished while
allowing voluntary participation in the voucher system and without tax increases.
Dennis Epple Richard RomanoGraduate School of Industrial Administration Department of EconomicsCarnegie Mellon University University of FloridaPosner Hall, Room 233C Gainesville, FL 32611-7140Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [email protected] [email protected]
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