Does the increase in competition between schools improve the quality of the service? The role of educational reform in Chile

Javiera Cartagena Farias and Steven McIntosh

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Abstract: We analyse the effect of geographic competition between schools on academic performance in Chile. The analysis controls for prior pupil performance, and a range of school and municipality characteristics. We allow for the endogeneity of voucher school location, using the number of local Catholic churches as an instrument. We find that a larger number of public schools positively affects the quality of education of other schools located in the same area, particularly amongst middle-class families and in middle-ranking schools. However, the number of voucher schools is associated with lower performance in neighbouring schools, which we attribute to pupil sorting.

Keywords: school choice; competition; educational vouchers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08-05
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Published in The Journal of Development Studies, 5, August, 2018. ISSN: 0022-0388

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