Diploma no problem
Subtitle: can private schools be of lower quality than public schools?
By: by Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco.
Contributors: Rocco, Lorenzo.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1336; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1336
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Private schools -- Italy.
Description: "Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private school, we show that, depending on the underlying parameters of the model, a market structure with the private school offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy suggest the existence of such an equilibrium in the Italian market for education"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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