id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000452817500002 Bukowski, P The threat of competition and public school performance: Evidence from Poland 2018 .txt text/plain 187 9 51 Theoretical literature on whether school competition raises public school productivity is ambiguous (e.g. MacLeod & Urquiola, 2015) and empirical evidence is mixed (e.g. Hsieh and Urquiola, 2006). For the total sample we find no effect, however, for more competitive urban educational markets, we report a drop in test scores in public schools following the increased threat of competition. cache/WOS-000452817500002.txt txt/WOS-000452817500002.txt