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Bildungstransfer und Systemwandel : Theorie u. Praxis d. industriestaatlichen Bildungstransfers in d. Laender d. Dritten Welt
Laaser, Ullrich - 1981
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009608022
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Education and social change in Ghana
Foster, Philip - 1965
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002268321
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School cultures : universes of meaning in private schools
Henry, Mary E. - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004184832
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Report Cards : The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz
We study the impact of providing school report cards with test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of our sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11...
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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.  The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.  For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...
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Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Several recent studies provide evidence that the choice between private and public school among white students is influenced by the racial composition of the local student population.  None of these studies, however, examines whether Latinos are also fleeing to private schools in response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929811
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Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
.  Variations in income per capita and especially parental education account for over 70% of the gap in private school attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929812
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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015
Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...
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MICROFINANCE AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN GHANA: EVIDENCE FROM POLICY BENEFICIARIES
Boateng, Gilbert O.; Boateng, Akwasi A.; Bampoe, Harry S. - In: Review of Business and Finance Studies 6 (2015) 1, pp. 99-108
microfinance has not had the much touted impact. This study ascertained the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction in Ghana … administered to 60 customers and beneficiaries of microfinance products of two major microfinance institutions in Ghana … poverty is microfinance which has gained prominence over the last few decades in countries hardly hit by the menace. Studies …
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EVIDENCE ON THE IMPACT OF THE SUSU SCHEME IN GHANA
Adusei, Michael; Appiah, Sarpong - In: Global Journal of Business Research 6 (2012) 2, pp. 1-10
deposits prevalent on the West African markets, on small businesses in Ghana. Evidence gathered from the analysis of a randomly … is three Ghana cedis (approximately two US dollars) and that majority of them have seen its positive impact on their …
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