Public services evidence reviews

We have produced reviews of the evidence and issues in a number of key areas of debate in the provision of public services. These are available below. For some of them we also provide a list of links to the key papers and some notes on them.

Private Delivery of Public Services

• Private Delivery of Public Services (PDF, 327kB)
  Paul A. Grout
  View the press release
  Listen to a podcast interview from Paul Grout about this report

Choice in Public Services

• Will More Choice Improve Outcomes in Education and Health Care? The Evidence from Economic Research
  Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson, March 2005

Performance Pay in the Public Sector

• Performance pay in the public sector: A review of the issues and evidence (PDF, 140kB)
  Simon Burgess, Graham Prentice and Carol Propper, November 2007
  (Commissioned by: Office of Manpower Economics)
• The Role of Incentives in the Public Sector: Issues and Evidence
  Simon Burgess and Marissa Ratto, May 2003
• Resource summarising research on incentives in the public sector, 2000
• Incentives in Organisations: A Selective Overview of the Literature with Application to the Public Sector
  Simon Burgess and Paul Metcalfe, December 1999

Productivity in Public Services

• Productivity in Public Services
  Helen Simpson, December 2006