Choice of Ontario high schools and its impact on university applications

Philip Leonard

Education Economics, 2015, vol. 23, issue 4, 433-454

Abstract: The extent to which increasing students' ability to choose between schools can impact their educational outcomes continues to generate significant research interest. I take advantage of the unique context in the province of Ontario, where two publicly funded school systems operate in parallel. I find a small positive impact of school choice on student applications to university. However, most of the impact is in terms of 'cross-effects'; the most robust finding is that the more Catholic high schools accessible from a neighbourhood, the better the public high schools perform. This is suggestive that one mechanism through which choice affects school outcomes is through competition between public and Catholic school boards.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2013.856869

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