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Returns to Private Education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián - 2007
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment...
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Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School : Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …
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The GED
Heckman, James J. - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes : Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform
Bohlmark, Anders - 2012
primarily are due to external effects (e.g., school competition), and not that independent-school students gain significantly …
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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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The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs : Swedish Evidence
Bohlmark, Anders - 2007
effect can be interpreted as the sum of a private-school attendance effect and a competition effect. The former effect, which … suggests that the main part of the achievement effect is due to more competition in the school sector, forcing schools to … competition from private schools increases school costs. There is also some evidence of sorting of pupils along socioeconomic and …
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Student Scores in Public and Private Schools : Evidence from PISA 2009
Mahuteau, Stephane - 2014
This paper examines critically the presumption that, other things equal, private schooling offers higher quality education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We...
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Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Gerdes, Christer - 2010
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...
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Does Private Schooling Increase Adult Earnings? Cohort-Level Evidence for U.S. States
Berger, Reilee - 2016
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices
Firpo, Sergio - 2014
In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...
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