The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these...

We examine the competition in shadow education inputs among students' parents under a social interaction framework by using a representative survey of middle school students in China. Based on the data structure and the identification issues, we apply spatial Tobit models and find that the...