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. When there are no peer group effects, efficiency is achieved when (at least) all but one school are public. In particular … in the two school case, the impact of a public school is spectacular as we go from a setting of extreme differentiation … to an efficient allocation. However, in the three school case, a single public school will lower welfare compared to the …
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The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...
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In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on … school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006 …, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test score of ENEM, a high school exit exam run by the federal government …
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tutoring relates to the transition probability to an academically demanding post compulsory school and the probability to … successfully pass through this school, controlling for the students competencies after tutoring, but before the transition. Using … more likely to fail in the selective school than students who had the same level of competencies without tutoring …
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Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
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Reaching-Out-of-School (ROSC) project using school census data. Comparison is also made to another pro-poor educational … keep children out of school …
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's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … support for financing public school. It is found that when the size of low-skilled immigrants is large, the education regime …
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Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...
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, the evidence points to greater use of such practices in state schools. Those practices are correlated with improved school …
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educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … school choice in Indonesia …
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