TY  - CHAP
AB  - Advocates of market-based reforms in the public sector argue that competition between providers drives up performance. But in the context of schooling, the concern is that any improvements in efficiency may come at the cost of increased stratification of schools along lines of pupil ability and attainments. In this chapter, we discuss our empirical work on competition and parental choice in English primary schools and present a methodology for identifying competition effects that exploits discontinuities in market access close to education district boundaries.
VL  - 14
SN  - 978-1-84950-446-1, 978-0-76231-351-8/0278-0984
DO  - 10.1016/S0278-0984(06)14007-9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0278-0984(06)14007-9
AU  - Gibbons Stephen
AU  - Silva Olmo
ED  - Timothy J. Gronberg
ED  - Dennis W. Jansen
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - Competition and Accessibility in School Markets: Empirical Analysis Using Boundary Discontinuities
T2  - Improving School Accountability
T3  - Advances in Applied Microeconomics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 157
EP  - 184
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -