Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … subjects this assumption to the scrutiny provided by a review of the theoretical and empirical economic evidence on choice in …

This paper focuses on one of the outcomes arising from England’s choice based education system; the extent to which … home postcode (zip code). We first establish that choice is both feasible for and exercised by the majority of pupils in … England. We then characterise and describe ability sorting and related it to feasibility of choice. We compare sorting across …

The use of choice as a mechanism to improve public service delivery is now well established in the UK. Current policy … assumption that choice (exit) and voice complement each other in creating user-driven incentives to increase quality for all … particular, I argue that in the current system, choice and voice may complement each other for only a subset of consumers. …

This paper offers an extensive review and bibliography of the literature on school choice, and its effects on social … and ethnic segregation between English schools. It finds that the evidence concerning whether “school choice” legislation … and demographic landscapes that confound attempts to show whether policies of school choice cause or reduce segregation …