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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project

Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017

Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …

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Report Cards : The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets

Andrabi, Tahir - 2015

This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by...

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Faithful strategies : how religion shapes nonprofit management

Filistrucchi, Lapo; Prüfer, Jens - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 65 (2019) 1, pp. 188-208

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Upping the ante : the equilibrium effects of unconditional grants to private schools

Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Ozyurt, … - 2018

This paper tests for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country. In an experimental setup, unconditional cash grants are allocated to one private school or all private schools in a village. Enrollment increases in both treatments, accompanied by infrastructure...

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Preschool Education in Brazil : Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Bastos, Paulo - 2016

This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. The results...

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Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Private School Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2016

This paper estimates the short-term, partial-equilibrium impacts of a public-private partnership program for low-cost private secondary schools in Uganda. The public-private partnership program is part of a broader strategy to absorb large increases in secondary enrollment following the...

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Low-cost private schools in Tanzania : a descriptive analysis

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Sununtnasuk, Celeste; … - 2020

This paper discusses the potential role of low-cost private secondary schools in Tanzania. The share of private enrollment has been negatively correlated with the availability of public schools. With the 2016 Fee-Free Basic Education Policy, the public secondary education system is experiencing...

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The value of U.S. college education in global labor markets : experimental evidence from China

Chen, Mingyu - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 2, pp. 1276-1300

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Earmarking donations to charity : cross-cultural evidence on its appeal to donors across 25 countries

Fuchs, Christoph; Jong, Martijn G. de; Schreier, Martin - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 66 (2019) 10, pp. 4820-4842

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I lie? : we lie! : why? : experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups

Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 64 (2018) 9, pp. 3995-4008

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