School Competition and the Quality of Education: Introducing Market Incentives into Public Services

Abstract:     
Existing research indicates that introducing school choice and competition into the public education system might improve the quality of schooling. Yet, up to date most empirical work on school choice has concentrated on developed countries and it is far from obvious that the experience of these countries can be of any guidance for transition economies. Our work intends to fill this gap. We concentrate on the case of Poland. We argue that in Poland, school choice and competition tends to improve average education quality and efficiency of public education expenditure.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 27

Keywords: School choice, educational economics, educational finance

JEL Classification: I21, I22, I29

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