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La contribution de l'école privée au Québec à la littératie et à la numératie des 15 ans : une analyse par effets de traitement
Lefebvre, Pierre - In: L' Actualité économique : revue trimest. 94 (2018) 2, pp. 123-174
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The heterogeneity of the "private school effect" in Italian primary education
Agasisti, Tommaso; Murtinu, Samuele; Sibiano, Piergiacomo - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 1, pp. 126-147
In this study, we have carried out an empirical investigation on the potential differences in school performance between pupils attending public schools and those attending private schools in the most densely populated region of Italy (Lombardy), employing a new data set of about 77,000 students...
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Private schools : Who Benefits?
2011
At some point in their child’s education, many parents have considered whether it would be worth the expense to enrol their child in a private school. For parents, private schools may offer a particular kind of instruction that is not available in public schools. If private schools also...
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Catholic Schools, Charter Schools, and Urban Neighborhoods
Garnett, Nicole Stelle; Brinig, Margaret F. - 2012
This paper addresses implications for urban neighborhoods of two dramatic shifts in the American educational landscape: (1) the rapid disappearance of Catholic schools from urban neighborhoods, and (2) the rise of charter schools. In previous studies, we linked Catholic school closures to...
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On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate
Peterson, Paul E.; Llaudet, Elena - 2009
On July 14, 2006, the U. S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a study that compared the performance in reading and math of 4th and 8th-graders attending private and public schools. Using information from a nationwide, representative sample of...
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Attending a school with heterogeneous peers : the effects of school detracking and its attenuation
Kwak, Do Won; Jin Young Lee - In: Economics of education review 94 (2023), pp. 1-15
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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? : evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders (contributor); Lindahl, Mikael (contributor) - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the … small to yield lasting positive effects. -- Private schooling ; choice ; competition ; educational achievement …
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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. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2008
. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition … after controlling for current Catholic shares. -- Private school competition ; student achievement ; Catholic schools …
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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Himmler, Oliver - 2009
outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …
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Competition and educational quality : evidence from the Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond; Jong, Matthijs de - 2009
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