Figlio, D.N. & Page, M.E., (2003)

‘Can School Choice and School Accountability Successfully Coexist?’

in Hoxby, C. (ed.), The Economics of School Choice, University of Chicago Press

• Analyses Florida’s school accountability system, which is based on giving vouchers to pupils at consistently underperforming schools, while giving financial rewards to improving schools.
• The authors investigate whether this mixed accountability/voucher system improves opportunities for the most disadvantaged children.
• Uses panel data to assess whether different voucher criteria (based on e.g. family income or average level of school poverty) would focus vouchers more effectively on the least advantaged.
• Concludes that the Florida system fails to give vouchers to many who need them.