Browsing by Author "Gallegos, Juan A."
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- ItemChoice, competition and switching cost in education(2015) Gallegos, Juan A.; Paredes M., Ricardo; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de IngenieríaThe 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 rationally choose schools for their children and that schools do not react to that choice is in the center of the debate. We critically analyze the prevailing methodology in the literature that relates competition and educational performance and the data used to estimate that impact. We propose a methodology that considers relevant substitutes for each school while simultaneously using various attributes that parents consider when choosing school, and we apply this methodology to evaluate the effects of competition on academic performance in Chile. The evidence supports the hypothesis that competition has a positive, significant and relevant educational impact on private and public schools.
- ItemCompetition pressures and academic performance in Chile(2016) Chumacero, Rómulo; Gallegos, Juan A.; Paredes M., Ricardo