Competition
Publicly funded education markets
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Education services are fundamental for economic and social well-being. They not only directly boost public sector productivity, but also the productivity of workers across the economy by improving their skills, increasing their capacity to add value, and giving them the ability to adapt to new ways of working. Furthermore, giving low-income citizens the ability to choose can reduce inequalities in access to high-quality services. Indeed many governments have adopted market mechanisms, such as student choice, payments that follow student choices (or vouchers), and greater autonomy for providers, in order to achieve better quality outcomes.
However, competition agencies face serious challenges when advocating (and enforcing) in education markets, as there are numerous features of these markets that can prevent, restrict or distort competition. For example, competitive incentives can be smothered by capacity constraints, uninformed passive consumers, and a lack of exit risk, or distorted by competitive neutrality issues. Furthermore, there are other policy goals that are important to governments. For example, providing equal opportunity for all, providing the skills required to fulfil an industrial strategy, or prioritising the needs of the highest or lowest achievers. Competition must therefore be carefully designed in order to complement and not contradict those goals.
In June 2019, the OECD will hold a roundtable discussion to share experiences on what has worked well, and what has worked poorly, and hence to understand how competition can best be used to help policymakers achieve their goals.
» Read the OECD Background Note EN | FR » Detailed Summary of the discussion » Executive Summary with key findings INVITED SPEAKERS Simon BURGESS Bio Nicola DANDRIDGE Bio  Director of Strategy, FutureLearn Miguel URQUIOLA Bio Dirk VAN DAMME
KEY PAPERS Challenges in designing publicly funded healthcare markets, 2018 Choice, competition and markets: education, healthcare and public services, 2017 School choice and school vouchers: An OECD perspective, 2017 Regulating Publicly Funded Private Schools: A Literature Review on Equity and Effectiveness, 2016 The Funding of School Education, 2017 Responsive School Systems, 2018
CONTRIBUTIONS |
 » Designing Publicly Funded Healthcare Markets |
3 June 2019 
Paris PRESENTATIONS
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RELATED BEST PRACTICE ROUNDTABLES Designing Publicly Funded Healthcare Markets, 2018 Competition in Public Markets, 2017 |
RELATED TOPICS Liberalisation and competition intervention in regulated sectors Pro-competitive Policy Reforms |
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