The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector … receive a low benefit from health care because quality is low then higher inequality aversion increases the optimal level of …

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 … health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to attract business. The paper …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …

state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer …