Summary
Free parental school choice combined with a decentralised funding regime creates an environment promoting school competition. Rich micro-level data sets measuring student achievement, family background and school characteristics can be used to analyse the effect of competition on schools effectiveness, efficiency and inequalities. This analysis can rely on students’ application data for upper-secondary schools. Identification of the effects of school choice and school competition will rely on the local supply concentration of schools, a technique used previously in TIER-research on school competition in the Netherlands.
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