Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82869 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003:2
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
The effect of a general school choice reform on student performance is studied in a Swedish institutional setting. A rich set of individual level data allows estimation of a value added specification, mitigating problems with omission of relevant variables. Increased school competition is shown to have statistically significant positive effects on student performance in mathematics, but no significant effects in English and Swedish. Interacting school competition with student characteristics, the results indicate that immigrant students and those in need of special education tend to gain more from increased school competition than others, while adverse effects on students from low education families are found in terms of English and Swedish performance. However, quantile regressions indicate homogeneous effects on low and high performing students.
Subjects: 
Private school competition
school choice
student performance
JEL: 
H42
H52
I28
L19
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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