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School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

  • David Card
  • Martin D. Dooley
  • A. Abigail Payne
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 2, no. 4, October 2010
(pp. 150-76)
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Abstract

We study competition between two publicly funded school systems in Ontario, Canada: one that is open to all students, and one that is restricted to children of Catholic backgrounds. A simple model of competition between the competing systems predicts greater effort by school managers in areas with more Catholic families who are willing to switch systems. Consistent with this insight, we find significant effects of competitive pressure on test score gains between third and sixth grade. Our estimates imply that extending competition to all students would raise average test scores in sixth grade by 6 percent to 8 percent of a standard deviation. (JEL I21, I22, H75, Z12)

Citation

Card, David, Martin D. Dooley, and A. Abigail Payne. 2010. "School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2 (4): 150-76. DOI: 10.1257/app.2.4.150

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JEL Classification

  • H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • I22 Educational Finance
  • Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
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