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School Performance in Australia: Is There a Role for Quasi-Markets?

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  • Steve Bradley
  • Mirko Draca
  • Colin Green

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Recent changes to the organisation of Australia's education system have raised the possibility of implementing wide-ranging market reforms. In this article we discuss the scope for introducing reforms similar to the United Kingdom's 'quasi-market' model. We discuss the role of school league tables in providing signals and incentives in a quasi-market. Specifically, we compare a range of unadjusted and model-based league tables of primary school performance in Queensland's public education system. These comparisons indicate that model-based tables which account for socio-economic status and student intake quality vary significantly from the unadjusted tables. Copyright 2004 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.

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  • Steve Bradley & Mirko Draca & Colin Green, 2004. "School Performance in Australia: Is There a Role for Quasi-Markets?," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 37(3), pages 271-286, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:37:y:2004:i:3:p:271-286
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    1. Pierre Canisius Kamanzi, 2019. "School Market in Quebec and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities in Higher Education," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(1), pages 18-27.
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    3. An, Duong Hoai, 2022. "Performance of universities in Vietnam," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    4. Nghiem, Son & Nguyen, Ha & Connelly, Luke, 2014. "The Efficiency of Australian Schools: Evidence from the NAPLAN Data 2009-2011," MPRA Paper 56231, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Son Nghiem & Ha Trong Nguyen & Luke B. Connelly, 2016. "The Efficiency of Australian Schools: A Nationwide Analysis Using Gains in Test Scores of Students as Outputs," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 35(3), pages 256-268, September.
    6. Alfred A. Haug & Vincent C. Blackburn, 2017. "Government secondary school finances in New South Wales: accounting for students’ prior achievements in a two-stage DEA at the school level," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 69-83, August.
    7. Ian Davidoff & Andrew Leigh, 2008. "How Much do Public Schools Really Cost? Estimating the Relationship between House Prices and School Quality," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 84(265), pages 193-206, June.
    8. Kalyan Chakraborty & Vincent C. Blackburn, 2013. "Efficiency and Equity in Funding for Government Schools in Australia," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(3-4), pages 127-142, December.

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