uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

-provided education appears more suitable to students with culturally privileged family backgrounds and high observed ability. The …

Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate …,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the issue of education vouchers and direct subsidies to private … schools. We find that successful attempts to move towards a more privatized education system rest mainly on pure income …

effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in …

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … the achievement distribution being hurt by competition. -- education ; competition ; Netherlands ; IVQR …

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility …. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas … welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We show that when private education is available, the degree of …

be. -- school choice ; survey ; private schools ; education vouchers …