The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is … present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

school, observing how competitive occupational choices often require higher quantitative skills. Using the data of the PISA … test in math, the empirical results highlight that a higher level of trust in school environments promotes a student …'s willingness to participate in math competitions. However, this positive effect of trust maintains mainly in mixed-sex competition …

This paper investigates the effect of a policy-induced increase in public school competition on private school … competition reduces private school enrollment. Secular and Catholic school enrollment is most responsive to increased public … expanded public school choice opportunities and increased competitive pressure on private schools. Using a new data set …

there may be general equilibrium effects of school competition. Simulations indicate that the mean effect of charter schools …This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model of charter school entry, school input choices, and student … school choices. The structural model renders a comprehensive and internally consistent picture of treatment effects when …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …