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New Paper on Competition in Education

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Looks interesting: School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic SchoolsDavid Card, Martin Dooley, Abigail PayneNBER Working Paper No. 14176Issued in July 2008The province of Ontario has two publicly funded school systems: secular schools (known as public schools) that are open to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered independently and receive equal funding per student. In this paper we use detailed school and student-level data to assess whether competition between the systems leads to improved efficiency. Building on a simple model of school choice, we argue that incentives for effort will be greater in areas where there are more Catholic families, and where these families are less committed to a particular system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).