Using data from Copenhagen school registers and other sources, I test the hypothesis that Danes are more likely to opt … out of their local public school if it has a large concentration of immigrant pupils. The results suggest that, when a … rich set of covariates at student, school, and neighbourhood levels is controlled for, up to an immigrant concentration of …

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 …

The Swedish school system suffers from profound problems with teacher recruitment and retention, knowledge decline, and … marketization of education, we suggest that these problems regarding school quality are to no small extent a result of the Swedish … school system's unlikely combination of a postmodern view of truth and knowledge, the ensuing pedagogy of child …