Market-based school reforms and educational inequality: the case of Chile

Thesis

This thesis aims to contribute more empirical evidence to the discussion on the effects of market-based school reforms in Chile. The most important of these reforms are the 1981 national voucher school plan and the introduction of a shared school financing scheme in 1993. The first established school choice and competition between all public schools and those private schools that wanted to be part of the new funding scheme consisting of a flat-rate per-student voucher provided by the state...

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Authors: Tartakowsky Pezoa, A

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: inequality of educational opportunities; educational inequalities; effects of school vouchers; voucher schools; market-oriented school reforms