Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9714136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giorgio Brunello (0000-0002-4830-4199, Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Lorenzo Rocco (0000-0002-4034-3724, Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 533 |
| Pages | 1866-1887 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02194.x |
| OpenAlex | W2171261184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 23 |
We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the\nstandard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private\nschools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An\nalternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than\nprivate schools, is also possible, in spite of the fact that tuition levied by private schools is\nstrictly positive. In our model, private schools can offer a lower educational standard at a\npositive price because they attract students with a relatively high cost of effort, who would\nfind the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key parameters\ncalibrated on the available micro-econometric evidence from the US, our model predicts that\nmajority voting in the US supports a system with high quality private schools and low quality\npublic schools, as assumed by Epple and Romano, 1998. This system, however, is not the one\nthat would be selected by the social planner, who prefers high quality public schools\ncombined with low quality private schools
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Hierarchy · Higher education · Microeconomics · Political science · Private education · Public economics · Quality (philosophy · School choice · Social planner · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Politics, Economics, and Education Policy · School Choice and Performance
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |