The Unintended Effects of Private School Competition

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

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Type of publication:

Tidsskriftsartikkel

Link to publication:

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

Number of pages:

Language of publication:

Engelsk

Country of publication:

NSD-reference:

2677

This page was last updated:

13/9 2007

Affiliations related to this publication:

Privat sektor (marked)
Stat

Publikasjonens datagrunnlag:

Case studie

Land som er gjenstand for studien:

Danmark

Verkemiddel i den konstituerande styringa:

1.1 Organisering generelt
1.3 Privatisering/markedsretting

Studieoppdrag:

Forskning

Studietype:

Effektstudie/implikasjoner/resultater

Type effekt:

Kvalitet og sikkerhetsmessige effektar
Verdimessige effektar

Sektor (cofog):

Barneskular I
Ungdomsskular I
Utdanning elles K

Summary:

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

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