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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …
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The GED
Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274263
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School Choice and Quality
Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - 2003
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of public and private schools and parents? self-assessment of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261561
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Returns to private education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268377
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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.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2008
. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269029
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Africa's education enigma? The Nigerian story
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
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What determines the return to education: An extra year or a hurdle cleared?
Dickson, Matt; Smith, Sarah - 2011
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278357
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Choice, competition and pupil achievement
Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267737
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … in Canada on earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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The evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269445