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In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha; Saha, Bibhas - 2014
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique … database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377363
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In "trusts" we trust : socially motivated private schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha; Saha, Bibhas - 2014
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique … database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370097
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Enhancing Excellence : Trade-Off between Socially Motivated and Profit Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha - 2017
database of Nepal. Using IV identification strategy to minimise the selectivity bias of school choice, we compare student …, with a view to assess their absolute as well as relative efficiency reflecting the value for money spent per student. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969239
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In 'Trusts' We Trust : Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha - 2014
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique … database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost.We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051453
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Tested and Trusted : Company-Run and Trust-Run Schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha - 2015
in the number of private and government schools located near the chosen school and using a unique data-set from Nepal, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034186
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Enhancing Excellence : Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha - 2017
Social motivation can promote efficiency of public service delivery though its role in providing schooling is little … in schooling, using Nepal as a case study. Results suggest that socially motivated trust schools outperform all other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967204
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Post-truth schooling and marketized education: Explaining the decline in Sweden's school quality
Henrekson, Magnus; Wennström, Johan - 2018
The Swedish school system suffers from profound problems with teacher recruitment and retention, knowledge decline, and grade inflation. Absenteeism is high, and psychiatric disorders have risen sharply among Swedish pupils in the last ten years. In this pioneering analysis of the consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917104
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The profit motive in the classroom: Friend or foe?
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2023
Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity for knowledge-enhancing innovation as crucial and explore this question by examining Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542202
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Incentivizing innovative entrepreneurship in quasi-markets: Theory and evidence from Sweden's schools and nursing homes
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2024
Many countries have implemented quasi-markets to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation in welfare service provision. However, the benefits have generally been limited; this can also be observed in Sweden, a country which stands out for its extensive use of quasi-markets. Based on the Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577297
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Einkommenssteigerung durchs Studium als wichtiges Maß
Dilger, Alexander - 2021
Die akademische Qualität der Lehre lässt sich nur schwer messen. Dagegen ist es relativ einfach, die späteren Einkommenszuwächse durch ein Studium zu bestimmen. Das ist für private wie staatliche Allokationsentscheidungen wichtig, etwa ob jemand aus finanziellen Gründen studieren soll, was...
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