Educational standards in private and public schools

When school quality increases with the educational standard set by schools, education before college need not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools. In our model, private schools can offer a lower educational standard at a positive price because they attract...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic details
Volume:	118
Main Author:	Brunello, Giorgio Rocco, Lorenzo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd OXFORD UNIV PRESS Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	The Economic journal (London) Vol. 118; no. 533; pp. 1866 - 1887
ORCID:	0000-0002-4034-3724
Data of publication:	2008
ISSN:	0013-0133 1468-0297 1468-0297
EISSN:	1468-0297
Discipline:	Economics Education
Bibliography:	We are grateful to the Editor in charge and three anonymous referees, to Sebastiano Bavetta, Francesca Gambarotto, Maria De Paola, David Figlio, Hideshi Itoh, Luciano Greco, Eric Hanushek, Antonio Nicolò, Anna Sanz de Galdeano and to the audiences in Padova, Siena, Udine, Uppsala and Tokyo (Hitotsubashi) for comments and suggestions. This article was completed while the first author was visiting CIRJE at Tokyo University, which provided excellent hospitality. The usual disclaimer applies.
Subjects:	Schule USA Privatschule Wahlsystem Theorie Bildungsniveau Schulpolitik Bildungsverhalten Private schools High school students Education Private education Public schools Tuition Fees High schools Educational standards Majority voting Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences ATTAINMENT CONSTRAINTS QUALITY INCENTIVES COMPETITION RETURNS
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2008 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS