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School assignment, school choice and social mobility

Burgess, Simon M. (contributor); Briggs, Adam (contributor) - 2006

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School assignment, school choice and social mobility

Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 4, pp. 639-649

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School choice and competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008

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...

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The three i's of public schools : irrelevant inputs, insufficient resources and inefficiency

Henderson, Daniel J.; Simar, Léopold; Wang, Le - 2016

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

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