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Market-Based Reforms of Public Schooling: Some Unpleasant Dynamics

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Nick Adnett ()
Spiros Bougheas
Peter Davies

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Reforms in m any countries have attempted to increase the degree of competition in schooling markets. The partial implementation of market solutions has not always produced the uniform, system-wide rise in educational standards anticipated by economists advocating reform. In this paper we analyse schooling market outcomes utilizig a simple model of the type of local market created in England and Wales. Regulatory authorities and researchers have noted that within local English and Welsh schooling markets, reform has been associated with an increase in the diversity of school performance, with pre-existing school hierarchies being reinforced, ra ther than challenged. We show that both promotion of an indicator of school performance based upon unadjusted pupil attainment and the presence of peer group effects can generate these market outcomes.

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Paper provided by Staffordshire University, Business School in its series Working Papers with number 994.

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  1. Barry Reilly & Ray Bachan, 2005. "A comparison of A-level performance in economics and business studies: How much more difficult is economics?," Education Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 85-108, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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