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Andersen, Simon Calmar & Søren Serritzlew (2007):

The Unintended Effects of Private School Competition

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2007 17(2):335-356

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Tidsskriftsartikkel

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http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/2/335

Antall sider:

22

Publiseringsspråk:

Engelsk

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UK

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2677

Disse opplysningene er sist endret:

13/9 2007

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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