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Hanushek, Eric A. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2045-2141). 2002

Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...

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Vouchers, school choice and the access to higher education

Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2002

For over twenty years, a voucher system has been used in Chile to promote competition in the educational system between … public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability …

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The Powers and Limits of a National School Voucher System : The Case of Sweden

Cowen, Nick - 2019

Twenty-five years ago, Sweden enacted the most ambitious school choice policy seen in the Western world, allowing … families to select any school regardless of their residence and independent providers to open new Free Schools after satisfying … Milton Friedman’s theory that open competition in education facilitated by state-funded vouchers would better serve the …

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Introducción: La Economía de la Educación y el Sistema Educativo Chileno

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 40 (2003) 118, pp. 281-296

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The effects of the Chilean school accountability system on teacher turnover

Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Martínez, Matías - 2019

This paper estimates the effects of school accountability on year-to-year teacher mobility in Chile. An accountability …-performance ranking was based on the school’s relative position on a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a … teachers can move to other schools, as we did not find any effect on the likelihood of teachers leaving the school system. The …

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The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement : Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations

Tyrefors, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - 2016

Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value … students, the voucher school impact is around zero. Comparing internal and external evaluations of the same standardized tests …

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The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement : Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations

Tyrefors, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - 2016

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The Impact of Upper-Secondary Voucher School Attendance on Student Achievement. Swedish Evidence Using External and Internal Evaluations

Tyrefors, Björn - 2017

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Public expenditures on education and health in Ukraine before and during the global crisis

Betliy, Oleksandra; Boyarchuk, Dmytro; Orlova, Irina B. - 2011

The report analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis on public services delivery in education and healthcare. The analysis has been undertaken from the macro-perspective. Pre-crisis and crisis economic developments are outlined and fiscal accounts developments are presented. The...

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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis

Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011

After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...

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