Part One: Framework 1
I Common Issues for Voucher Programs 3
2 The Economics of Vouchers 40
3 The Politics of Vouchers 92
Part Two: Practice 117
4 Lessons from the Food Stamp Program 119
5 Housing Vouchers: The U.S. Experience 139
6 Housing Vouchers: A Contribution from Abroad 176
7 Child-Care Vouchers and Cash Payments 195
8 Vouchers for Federal Targeted Training Programs 224
9 Vouchers 23r Elementary and Secondary Education 251
10 Privatizing Education: Lessons from Canada Europe, and Asia 292
11 Vouchers and American Higher Education 336
12 Legal and Constitutional Issues of Vouchers 368
13 Grades K-12: The Legal Problems with Public Funding of Religious Schools 394
14 Medicare Vouchers 407
15 Subsidizing Health Care for the under Sixty-Five Population 438
Part Three: Design 469
16 Structured Choice versus Fragmented Choice: Bundling of Vouchers 471
17 A Survey of Voucher Use: Variatiom and Common Elements 503
Contributors 541
Index 545