Market for education and student achievement

Marché de l’éducation et réussite scolaire

Alexis Le Chapelain ()
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Abstract: This dissertation discusses the relevance of the implementation of market mechanisms in the educational system. It shows that such mechanisms are unlikely to improve the matching between schools and students, since centralized mechanisms perform better. Then, it measures peers effects in French public junior high school, and shows that they quite large. In a third part, it looks to the compensation of teachers in France, and show that it is not based on merit or performance. Last, it analyses the impact of the openness to competition of the education, and shows that it is unlikely to produce improvement. Indeed, such openness would lead to an increased vertical differentiation across, giving them more market power. As a result, market mechanisms seem unable to improve students' achievement.

Keywords: Market for education; Peer effects; School competition; Marché de l’éducation; Effets de pairs; Concurrence entre écoles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-12
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Published in Economics and Finance. Institut d'études politiques de paris - Sciences Po, 2014. English. ⟨NNT : 2014IEPP0040⟩

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