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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David - 2007
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...
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Donating the Voucher : An Alternative Tax Treatment of Private School Enrollment
Samwick, Andrew A. - 2012
Approximately 10 percent of school-age children in the United States are enrolled in private schools, relieving the financial burden on public school systems, and the taxpayers who support them, of the cost of their education. At present, the tax code does not allow families who provide this...
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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing us to estimate its causal...
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Personnel Management and School Productivity : Evidence from India
Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …
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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice : Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...
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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2008
in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …
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AGOA Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Edwards, Lawrence - 2010
But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2008
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464285
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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Frazer, Garth - 2007
This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …
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