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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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independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the … across municipalities over time as a result of this reform. We regress the change in educational performance outcomes on the …
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school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who … choose an academic high school track. However, we do not find any impact on medium or long-term educational outcomes such as … nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …
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We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …
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-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic … schooling and student outcomes is explained by selection bias. Spearheaded by the universal call to holiness and the opening to … student outcomes …
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, the evidence points to greater use of such practices in state schools. Those practices are correlated with improved school …
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educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … school choice in Indonesia …
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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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In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group,...
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We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...
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