groups or individuals who see a personal advantage in more school choice, such as parents of school-age children, urban …-income groups, and individuals with a teaching qualification oppose more school choice. The analyses also indicate differences … be. -- school choice ; survey ; private schools ; education vouchers …

independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the … across municipalities over time as a result of this reform. We regress the change in educational performance outcomes on the …

information on the public-private character of both operation and funding of each tested school. Across countries, public … operation is associated with lower student outcomes, but public funding with better student outcomes. Thus, systems of PPPs that …

. When there are no peer group effects, efficiency is achieved when (at least) all but one school are public. In particular … in the two school case, the impact of a public school is spectacular as we go from a setting of extreme differentiation … to an efficient allocation. However, in the three school case, a single public school will lower welfare compared to the …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

school competition are both independently related to student outcomes. …Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students …