 | Gabriel H. Sahlgren is Director of Research at The Centre for Market Reform of Education and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He recently published the book Incentivising excellence: school choice and education quality, which discusses the conditions that need to prevail for choice to produce higher quality and analyses a vast amount of research on this topic. He is also the author of the paper Schooling for money: Swedish education reform and the role of the profit motive, for which he was awarded the Arthur Seldon Award for Excellence. |
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