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The Unintended Effects of Private School Competition

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Author
Andersen, Simon Calmar & Søren Serritzlew

Year
2007

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

Type of publication:
Tidsskriftsartikkel

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

Number of pages:
22

Language of publication:
Engelsk

Country of publication:
UK

NSD-reference:
2677

This page was last updated:
2007-09-13 09:07:20.31

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