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Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...
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Assessing teacher quality in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2014
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591
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Drivers of student performance : evidence from higher secondary public schools in Delhi
Goel, Deepti; Barooah, Bidisha - 2018
) in public schools in Delhi, India. Using the value added approach, we find substantial variation in teacher and student …
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Cognitive, socioemotional and behavioral returns to college quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment, behavioral preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that...
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Access to banking services and poverty reduction : a state-wise assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2009
poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831814
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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion : a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector
Neumann, Einat (contributor); Neuman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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Valuing school quality via a school choice reform
Machin, Stephen; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010
Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards establishing accountability systems in education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937053
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School responsiveness to quality rankings : an empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands
Koning, Pierre; Wiel, Karen van der - 2010
This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...
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