Abstract. The very small literature explaining (1) how citizens have voted in two California voucher referenda, (2) how legislators have voted on voucher bills in the State of Florida and the US Congress, and (3) the variation across states in charter school provisions is summarized. New empirical evidence documenting the cross-state variation in the success of voucher referenda and voucher bills is examined. Voucher bill characteristics and state characteristics play important roles. Voucher bills have been passed only in the more conservative Republican states, and almost all of the successful voucher programs have been targeted at large, struggling school districts.

We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling deci-sions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic stochastic model. We show that education attainment will be an increasing

There is a well-documented positive correlation between good health, measured in a number of different ways, and high levels of formal education (see, for example, Grossman 1976). Furthermore, it is gener-ally agreed that three potential structural relations could generate this this positive

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expert programming assistance. Advocates of school choice argue that tax support of public schools distorts the incentives faced by both the consumers and producers of schooling. They recommend removing this distortion by providing vouchers to subsidize students should they choose to attend private

Locus of control and study program choice: