Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers
By: edited by Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon.
Contributors: Barrera Osorio, Felipe.; Patrinos, Harry Anthony.; Wodon, Quentin.
Series: Directions in development
Publisher: World Bank/IBRD; World Bank Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780821379769; 9780821379776
Subjects: Educational vouchers -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Privatization in education -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Church schools -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public-private partnerships in education: an overview / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon; title: The effectiveness of franchises and independent private schools in Chile's national voucher program / Gregory Elacqua, Dante Contreras, and Felipe Salazar; title: Cognitive ability, heterogeneity, endogeneity and returns to schooling in Chile: outcomes of the 1981 capitation grant scheme / Harry Anthony Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou; title: When schools are the ones that choose: the effect of screening in Chile / Dante Contreras, Sebastian Bustos, and Paulina Sepulveda; title: How do vouchers work?: evidence from Colombia / Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer, and Juan E. Saavedra; title: The performance of decentralized school systems: evidence from Fe y Alegría in Venezuela / Hunt Allcott and Daniel E. Ortega; title: Literacy and numeracy in faith-based and government schools in Sierra Leone / Quentin Wodon and Yvonne Ying; title: Comparing faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon; title: Student achievement in religious and secular secondary schools in Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar; title: Does money matter?: the effect of private educational expenditures on academic performance / Changhui Kang; title: Comparing the cost of public, religious, and private schooling in Cameroon / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon.