The positive impact that competition has on performance in most industries has been questioned in the education sector: The difficulty to measure competition, the idea that parents don't rationally choose schools for their ...

One of the pillars of the educational voucher system is that competition among schools to attract students would improve the quality of the education. Surveys to parents and previous work suggested that families rank the ...

The benefits of competition are recognized and promoted in most industries, however they are not evident and have been questioned in the Education sector. The difficulty to measure competition, the idea that parents don't ...

In most school systems, over 50% of 15-year-olds students attend schools that compete with another school to attract students from the same residential area. Across countries and economies, performance is unrelated to ...

Using Chilean data for fourth grade students, this research studies the effect of competition among schools on the results of standardized tests, academic self-esteem and motivation, the climate within the school, civic ...

The voucher scheme introduced in Chile in 1981 allows for-profit private subsidized schools to choose their students. The objective of this article is to present evidence of this practice and examine its relationship with ...