Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers / [edited by] Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Directions in development
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Physical Description:xx, 186 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Alegria 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.