Gabriel Heller?Sahlgren
Smart but unhappy: Independent-school competition and the wellbeing-efficiency trade-off in education
Research Institute of Industrial Economics|London School of Economics and Political Science
study whether independentschool competition involves tradeoff pupil wellbeing academic performance test hypothesis analyse data covering pupils across oecd exploiting historical catholic opposition state schooling exogenous variation independentschool enrolment shares find independentschool competition decreases pupil wellbeing raises achievement lowers educational costs analysis balancing tests indicate findings causal addition find several mechanisms behind tradeoff including traditional teaching stronger parental achievement pressure