2013-11-01
Competition and educational quality: evidence from the Netherlands
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Empirica , Volume 40 - Issue 4 p. 607- 634
Little evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large-scale competition. In the Netherlands, free parental choice has been present since the beginning of the twentieth century and can be characterized as a full voucher program with 100 % funding. Based on micro panel data for the Netherlands, we show that there is a relation between competition and educational outcomes in secondary education, but that it is often negative and small, sometimes insignificant but never positive. This effect is larger for small and medium-sized schools and for schools that do not have a Protestant or Catholic denomination.
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Dijkgraaf, E., Gradus, R., & de Jong, M. (2013). Competition and educational quality: evidence from the Netherlands. Empirica, 40(4), 607–634. doi:10.1007/s10663-012-9195-6 |
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