This book assesses how efficient primary and upper primary education is across different states of India considering … could produce differential efficiency among the states, including the effects of central grants, school … territories of India, which are categorized into two separate groups, namely: (i) General Category States (GCS); and (ii) Special …

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 …

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 …

administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on … sufficient information. A school accountability scheme that rewards school performance will create incentives for pupil selection … assumption. We propose different compromise solutions and discuss the resulting incentives in theory. The empirical relevance of …

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …