School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Card, David; Dooley, Martin D.; Payne, A. Abigail
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; McMaster University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.2.4.150
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 150-176
• 关键词: benefit students; PRIVATE; achievement; vouchers; QUALITY; CHOICE

摘要

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.