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Trust-Based Evaluation in a Market-Oriented School System

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  • Vlachos, Jonas

    (Department of Economics, Stockholm University)

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In Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market-oriented school system with liberal entry conditions for voucher-funded private providers. National standardized tests are graded at the local school and what ultimately matters to students are teacher-set grades. This paper finds that privately run free schools systematically set higher grades than public schools when controlling for their achievement on national tests. The differences between municipal and free schools are larger when more reliable tests are used to account for achievement. Differences in grading standards between providers are substantial and most of the performance advantage in teacher-set grades that free schools enjoy can be attributed to more generous grading. The results also indicate that different private providers do not necessarily respond symmetrically when faced with similar market conditions and act under the same regulatory regime.

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  • Vlachos, Jonas, 2018. "Trust-Based Evaluation in a Market-Oriented School System," Working Paper Series 1217, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1217
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    Keywords

    Private provision of public services; School performance evaluation; School vouchers;
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    JEL classification:

    • H44 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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