private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial … stronger predictors of private school attendance as public school expenditure falls. Income becomes increasingly important in …

efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected … allocation, and monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey we found that people were not …

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the … students at the beginning and end of the school day. The time and date stamps on the photographs were used to track teacher …

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to … residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents … income and tastes for schools. This model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …

This paper uses a computational general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of public school finance regimes on … rates of private school attendance. It is shown that, when viewed in such a general equilibrium context, state intervention … in locally financed systems can have somewhat unexpected and counterintuitive effects on the level of private school …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …

This paper provides an empirical estimate of price' and risk' elasticities of demand for term life insurance for those …