Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers [electronic resource] / [edited by] Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon.
Contributor(s): Barrera Osorio, Felipe | Patrinos, Harry Anthony | Wodon, Quentin
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TextSeries: Directions in developmentPublisher: Washington DC : World Bank/IBRD, c2009Description: xx, 186 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780821379769 (alk. paper); 9780821379776Subject(s): Church schools -- Developing countries -- Case studies | Educational vouchers -- Developing countries -- Case studies | Privatization in education -- Developing countries -- Case studiesAdditional physical formats: Print Version:DDC classification: 379.1/110917242 LOC classification: LB2828.7 | .E47 2009Online resources: home Includes bibliographical references and index.
Public-private partnerships in education: an overview / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon -- The effectiveness of franchises and independent private schools in Chile's national voucher program / Gregory Elacqua, Dante Contreras, and Felipe Salazar -- Cognitive ability, heterogeneity, endogeneity and returns to schooling in Chile: outcomes of the 1981 capitation grant scheme / Harry Anthony Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou -- When schools are the ones that choose: the effect of screening in Chile / Dante Contreras, Sebastian Bustos, and Paulina Sepulveda -- How do vouchers work?: evidence from Colombia / Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer, and Juan E. Saavedra -- The performance of decentralized school systems: evidence from Fe y Alegría in Venezuela / Hunt Allcott and Daniel E. Ortega -- Literacy and numeracy in faith-based and government schools in Sierra Leone / Quentin Wodon and Yvonne Ying -- Comparing faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon -- Student achievement in religious and secular secondary schools in Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar -- Does money matter?: the effect of private educational expenditures on academic performance / Changhui Kang -- Comparing the cost of public, religious, and private schooling in Cameroon / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon.
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