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来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.65,P.89-103

语言

英文

关键字

Demand for schooling; Efficiency; Input-output analysis; School choice; Public schools; Spatial econometrics; NONPARAMETRIC FRONTIER MODELS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC-SCHOOLS; SECONDARY-SCHOOLS; HIGHER-EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; ACADEMIC-

作者单位

[Lopez-Torres, Laura; Prior, Diego] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Business, Edifici B,Campus Bellaterra, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain. [Nicolini, Rosella] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Appl Econ, Edifici B,Campus Bellaterra, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain. Prior, D (reprint author), Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Business, Edifici B,Campus Bellaterra, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain. E-Mail: Diego.Prior@uab.es

摘要

This paper provides evidence on strategic interaction among public schools. We adopt a two-stage estimation procedure to assess whether competition among public schools influences demand for places. A robust conditional order-m approach is used to estimate the efficiency of each school; a spatial econometric framework is then applied to disentangle the determinants of demand for the school when strategic interaction among parents is present. We detect the presence of positive spatial autocorrelation in the demand for public schools, but the magnitude of the spillover effects drops when neighboring school performance is added in. Our results confirm the existence of competitive pressures among public schools' performance that we also infer from parents' school choices.