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What Next for School Vouchers?
Peterson, Paul E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 57-61
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Stratified or Comprehensive? Some Economic Considerations on the design of secondary education
Brunello, Giorgio - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 07-10
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
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Central Exams as the "Currency" of School Systems: International Evidence on the Complementarity of School Autonomy and Central Exams
Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 46-56
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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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Preference intensities and risk aversion in school choice: a laboratory experiment
Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - In: Experimental Economics 16 (2013) 1, pp. 1-22
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to …
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The “Boston” school-choice mechanism: an axiomatic approach
Kojima, Fuhito; Ünver, M. - In: Economic Theory 55 (2014) 3, pp. 515-544
The Boston mechanism is a popular student-placement mechanism in school-choice programs around the world. We provide …
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On two kinds of manipulation for school choice problems
Kesten, Onur - In: Economic Theory 51 (2012) 3, pp. 677-693
Many school districts in the US. employ centralized clearing houses to assign students to public schools. An important … potential threat against any school choice mechanism is the tendency of schools to circumvent the procedure via two kinds of … the vulnerability of three prominent school choice mechanisms that have been adopted (or, considered for adoption) by some …
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The Effects of School Choice on Parental School Participation and School Satisfaction in Korea
Kim, Jung-Sook; Hwang, Yeo-Jung - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 1, pp. 363-385
This study examines the effects of the school choice policy by utilizing data from the Seoul Education Longitudinal … Study. Specifically, the school participation and school satisfaction of parents whose child entered high school in 2010 … through the high school choice policy are analyzed. The results reveal that the opportunity for school choice itself is not …
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The role of awareness, information gathering and processing in school choice
Azmat, Ghazala; Montalvo, José Garcia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
This paper studies the determinants of school choice, focusing on the role of information. We consider how parents … neighborhood and measure their capacity to rank the quality of the school with respect to the official rankings. We find that … parents’ education and wealth are important factors in determining their level of school awareness and information gathering …
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