between choice and achievement, but uncover a small positive association between competition and school performance. Yet, this … discontinuities generated by admissions district boundaries suggests that the performance gains from greater school competition are …Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past …

A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our … context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between …

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the … nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has …

primarily are due to external effects (e.g., school competition), and not that independent-school students gain significantly …This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of …

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …

report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics (though …

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative … remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We consistently find that competition stemming from the opening of new charter …

variables, teacher profiles and school characteristics, were analyzed to identify appropriate needs-based formula components and …