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 … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

We present a model in which students can influence their priority in a school choice mechanism through a first … the price of increased allocative inequalities, which in turn increase competition in the effort stage. We apply these …

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 questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …