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School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools
Card, David - 2010
The province of Ontario has two publicly funded school systems: secular schools (known as public schools) that are open to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered independently and receive equal funding per student. In...
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Educational Production
Lazear, Edward P. - 2021
their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non … by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested …
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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael; Moulin, Sylvie; … - 2021
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....
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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
Krueger, Alan B. - 2022
This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's...
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The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice
Avery, Christopher - 2015
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood. However, the introduction of choice programs affect incentives to live in certain neighborhoods, which may undermine the goals of choice...
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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools
Fryer, Roland G. - 2016
Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...
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Public School Choice : An Economic Analysis
Barseghyan, Levon - 2014
Public school choice programs give households a free choice of public school and provide schools incentives to compete for students. Proponents of these programs argue that by the usual market logic, choice and competition will improve the quality of the education that schools provide. Critics...
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Using Market Valuation to Assess Public School Spending
Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia E. - 2021
In this paper we use a 'market-based' approach to examine whether increased school expenditures are valued by potential residents and whether the current level of public school provision is inefficient. We do so by employing an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the effect of state...
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Neighborhood Schools, Choice, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits
Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard E. - 2021
School districts in the U.S. typically have multiple schools, centralized finance, and student assignment determined by neighborhood of residence. In many states, centralization is extending beyond the district level as states assume an increasing role in the finance of education. At the same...
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The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021
I construct an agency model of local public goods producers with special reference to public schools. The model assumes that households make Tiebout choices among jurisdictions, but it has more realistic assumptions about information and the cost of residential mobility. I examine producers'...
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