In an article in City AM, I write about the school
revolution betrayed, and about what is needed to produce a British education
market that raises achievement considerably: 'incentives, incentives,
and incentives'.
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren (also publishing as Gabriel Sahlgren) is a policy researcher focusing on topics relating to applied microeconomics, especially education policy. He is active in both the British and Swedish debate. Consequently, this blog contains material in both English and Swedish.
Showing posts with label vouchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vouchers. Show all posts
Monday, 15 October 2012
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
New evidence from the Swedish voucher reform
I blog about a new paper on the Swedish voucher reform, which finds positive long-term educational benefits from school competition. It also finds no significant effects on costs, turning the achievement gains into productivity gains, and that there are no different general-equilibrium impacts of for-profit and non-profit competition.
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