Ranking the schools: How quality information affects school choice in the Netherlands
This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that negative (positive) school quality scores decrease (increase) the number of students choosing a school after the year of publication. The positive effects are particularly large for the academic school track. An academic school track recei... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / I20 / D10 / D83 / School quality / school choice / information / media / Bildungsverhalten / Allgemeinbildende Schule / Dienstleistungsqualität / Bewertung / Informationsverhalten / Zeitung / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26846792 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36944 |