The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform well. Roughly one third of Dutch pre-university schools are of catholic denomination. Acknowledging this widely available outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not asso... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
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Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / I21 / education / competition / Netherlands / IVQR / Allgemeinbildende Schule / Privatschule / Katholizismus / Wettbewerb / Bildungsniveau / Bildungsabschluss / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27638638 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30481 |
Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform well. Roughly one third of Dutch pre-university schools are of catholic denomination. Acknowledging this widely available outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a deterioration of grading standards. Finally, (inverse) quantile regression estimates show no evidence of schools at the bottom of the achievement distribution being hurt by competition.