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Testing for Quasi‐Market Forces in Secondary Education

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  • Steve Bradley
  • Robert Crouchley
  • Jim Millington
  • Jim Taylor

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This paper investigates the effect of introducing quasi‐market forces into secondary education on the allocation of pupils between schools and on the exam performance of pupils. A unique database is used which covers all publicly‐funded secondary schools in England over the period 1992–98. We find several effects consistent with the operation of a quasi‐market. Firstly, new admissions are found to be positively related to a school’s own exam performance and negatively related to the exam performance of competing schools. Secondly, a school’s growth in pupil numbers is positively related to its exam performance compared to its immediate competitors. Thirdly, there is strong evidence that schools experiencing an excess demand for places have responded by increasing their physical capacity. Fourthly, there is some evidence of an increase in the concentration of pupils from poor family backgrounds in those schools with the poorest exam performance of schools during 1992–98 can be attributed to the introduction of quasi‐market forces.

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  • Steve Bradley & Robert Crouchley & Jim Millington & Jim Taylor, 2000. "Testing for Quasi‐Market Forces in Secondary Education," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 62(3), pages 357-390, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:62:y:2000:i:3:p:357-390
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00176
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    1. Silva, Olmo, 2009. "Some Remarks on the Effectiveness of Primary Education Interventions," IZA Policy Papers 5, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    5. Yasuhide Tanaka, 2004. "On the equity aspect of the 'quasi-market' in educational services: the case of the North-West region in England," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(13), pages 789-791.
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    10. Stephen Machin & Olmo Silva, 2013. "School Structure, School Autonomy and the Tail," CEP Reports 29, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    11. Marcello Sartarelli, 2011. "Do Performance Targets Affect Behaviour? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores in England," DoQSS Working Papers 11-02, Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.

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