Foliano, Francesca and Silva, Olmo (2020) School competition and the quality of education. In, The Economics of Education. Academic Press, pp. 491-507. (doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-815391-8.00036-7).
Abstract
Spurred by mixed evidence on the effectiveness of resource-based interventions (Hanushek, 2003), policy makers around the world have come to promote reforms that aim to improve standards by injecting into the education system elements of school choice and autonomy -- and by promoting competition among schools. In this chapter, we review evidence on the effectiveness of school competition to raise the quality of education using the experience of four nations that pioneered reforms in this direction – namely, England, the US, Sweden and Chile. Our review reveals that findings are very mixed. We conclude by discussing possible institutional ‘bottlenecks’ that might explain why the benefits school competition have yet to materialise.
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