The Unintended Effects of Private School Competition
Forfatter
Andersen, Simon Calmar & Søren Serritzlew
Årstall
2007
Utgiver
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2007 17(2):335-356
Publikasjonstype:
Tidsskriftsartikkel
Fulltekst:
http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/2/335
Antall sider:
22
Publiseringsspråk:
Engelsk
Land publikasjonen kommer fra:
UK
NSD-referanse:
2677
Disse opplysningene er sist endret:
2007-09-13 09:07:20.31
- Privat sektor (marked)
- Stat
- Case studie
- Danmark
- 1.1 Organisering generelt
- 1.3 Privatisering/markedsretting
- Forskning
- Effektstudie/implikasjoner/resultater
- Kvalitet og sikkerhetsmessige effektar
- Verdimessige effektar
- Barneskular I
- Ungdomsskular I
- Utdanning elles K
Sammendrag
We examine whether competition from private schools improves public school performance
and expenditure. It is difficult methodologically to isolate the effect of competition, but we
use new measures of competition in both the public and the private school sector and
a data set comprising detailed background information on more than 35,000 public school
students in the Danish voucher system. This design provides a relatively firm support for the
conclusion that competition does not improve achievement of public school students but
that it increases public expenditure per student. Finally, we argue that there may be several
good reasons for this