We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

unterzogen: Deutschland, Spanien, Mexiko und Österreich. Das Forschungsinteresse ist dabei auf die Frage gerichtet, welche Rolle … domestic media attention to the results of PISA: Germany, Austria, Spain and Mexico. It particularly explores the role of the …

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … Italian secondary school graduates, interviewed 3 year after graduation. In these data, the impact of observable talent …

In this paper we use English school level data from 1993 to 2008 aggregated up to small neighbourhood areas to look at … factors that are correlated with private school prices and/or the quality of state schools that also impact on the demand for … the demand for private schooling is inversely related to private school fees as well as the quality of state schooling in …

information on the public-private character of both operation and funding of each tested school. Across countries, public …

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has … school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …