Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia's Schools? Preliminary Results from Year One of a Three-Year Randomized Evaluation of Partnership Schools for Liberia

After one year, public schools managed by private contractors in Liberia raised student learning by 60 percent, compared to standard public schools. But costs were high, performance varied across contractors, and contracts authorized the largest contractor to push excess pupils and underperforming teachers onto other government schools

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Romero, Mauricio
Other Persons:	Sandefur, Justin (contributor) ; Sandholtz, Wayne (contributor)
Publisher:	[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Liberia \| Outsourcing \| Schule \| School \| Schulpolitik \| School policy \| Bildungspolitik \| Education policy

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (59 p)
Series:	Center for Global Development Working Paper ; No. 462
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 7, 2017 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3062941 [DOI]
Classification:	i25 ; I28 - Government Policy ; C93 - Field Experiments ; L32 - Public Enterprises ; L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises; Privatization; Contracting Out
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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