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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition : evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition. -- school choice ; competition ; school consolidation ; achievement ; economies of scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232507
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278683
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition : evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989387
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Private education provision and public finance : the Netherlands
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - In: Education economics 21 (2013) 4, pp. 392-414
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Does the teacher beat the test? : the additional value of teacher assessment in predicting student ability
Feron, Eva; Schils, Trudie; Weel, Bas ter - 2015
-data from the Netherlands about cognitive test scores and teacher assessment in elementary schools and about track placement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469683
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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...
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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Himmler, Oliver - 2009
the achievement distribution being hurt by competition. -- education ; competition ; Netherlands ; IVQR … outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850811
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Where to go next? : essays on the economics of school choice
Sóvágó, Sándor - 2019
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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Himmler, Oliver - 2009
outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265979
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Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Additional Value of Teacher Assessment in Predicting Student Ability
Feron, Eva - 2015
-data from the Netherlands about cognitive test scores and teacher assessment in elementary schools and about track placement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029629