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Peter F Orazem - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design evaluation and sustainability of Private Schools for the poor the pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments
Research Papers in Economics, 2003Co-Authors: Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim, Peter F OrazemAbstract:Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of Private Schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups is used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot Schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban Schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government Schools, better availability of teachers, and more educated parents with higher incomes. Use of experienced school operators in the urban pilot was another critical difference. All urban Schools appear self-sustaining or else require a modest subsidy, whereas only one rural school may survive as a Private school. These pilots show that Private Schools may offer a viable alternative supply of educational services to poor urban neighborhoods in developing countries. However, they are not likely to offer solutions to undersupply of educational services to rural areas.
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design evaluation and sustainability of Private Schools for the poor the pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments
Economics of Education Review, 2003Co-Authors: Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim, Peter F OrazemAbstract:Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of Private Schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups are used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot Schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban Schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government Schools, better availability of teachers, and more educated parents with higher incomes. Use of experienced school operators in the urban pilot was another critical difference. All urban Schools appear self-sustaining or else require a modest subsidy, whereas only one rural school may survive as a Private school. These pilots show that Private Schools may offer a viable alternative supply of educational services to poor urban neighborhoods in developing countries. However, they are not likely to offer solutions to undersupply of educational services to rural areas. 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. JEL classification:I22; H42; O22
Harold Alderman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design evaluation and sustainability of Private Schools for the poor the pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments
Research Papers in Economics, 2003Co-Authors: Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim, Peter F OrazemAbstract:Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of Private Schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups is used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot Schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban Schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government Schools, better availability of teachers, and more educated parents with higher incomes. Use of experienced school operators in the urban pilot was another critical difference. All urban Schools appear self-sustaining or else require a modest subsidy, whereas only one rural school may survive as a Private school. These pilots show that Private Schools may offer a viable alternative supply of educational services to poor urban neighborhoods in developing countries. However, they are not likely to offer solutions to undersupply of educational services to rural areas.
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design evaluation and sustainability of Private Schools for the poor the pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments
Economics of Education Review, 2003Co-Authors: Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim, Peter F OrazemAbstract:Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of Private Schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups are used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot Schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban Schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government Schools, better availability of teachers, and more educated parents with higher incomes. Use of experienced school operators in the urban pilot was another critical difference. All urban Schools appear self-sustaining or else require a modest subsidy, whereas only one rural school may survive as a Private school. These pilots show that Private Schools may offer a viable alternative supply of educational services to poor urban neighborhoods in developing countries. However, they are not likely to offer solutions to undersupply of educational services to rural areas. 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. JEL classification:I22; H42; O22
Jooseop Kim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design evaluation and sustainability of Private Schools for the poor the pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments
Research Papers in Economics, 2003Co-Authors: Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim, Peter F OrazemAbstract:Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of Private Schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups is used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot Schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban Schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government Schools, better availability of teachers, and more educated parents with higher incomes. Use of experienced school operators in the urban pilot was another critical difference. All urban Schools appear self-sustaining or else require a modest subsidy, whereas only one rural school may survive as a Private school. These pilots show that Private Schools may offer a viable alternative supply of educational services to poor urban neighborhoods in developing countries. However, they are not likely to offer solutions to undersupply of educational services to rural areas.
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design evaluation and sustainability of Private Schools for the poor the pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments
Economics of Education Review, 2003Co-Authors: Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim, Peter F OrazemAbstract:Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of Private Schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups are used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot Schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban Schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government Schools, better availability of teachers, and more educated parents with higher incomes. Use of experienced school operators in the urban pilot was another critical difference. All urban Schools appear self-sustaining or else require a modest subsidy, whereas only one rural school may survive as a Private school. These pilots show that Private Schools may offer a viable alternative supply of educational services to poor urban neighborhoods in developing countries. However, they are not likely to offer solutions to undersupply of educational services to rural areas. 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. JEL classification:I22; H42; O22
Patrick J Mcewan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how effective are Private Schools in latin america
Comparative Education Review, 2004Co-Authors: Marie Andree Somers, Patrick J Mcewan, Douglas J WillmsAbstract:Using multilevel modelling and data from 10 Latin American countries, this paper provides new evidence on the relative effectiveness of public and Private Schools. There are substantial differences in the achievement of Private and public Schools, usually around one-half a standard deviation. A small portion of these differences is accounted for by the higher socioeconomic status of students in Private Schools. A quite substantial portion is explained by the varying peer group characteristics in Private and public Schools. After accounting for peer characteristics, the average Private school effect across all 10 countries is zero, though with some variance around this mean (the effects range between -0.2 and 0.2 standard deviations). Evidence on selection bias is inconclusive, but the paper argues that these effects may constitute an upper bound to the true effects.
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the effectiveness of public catholic and non religious Private Schools in chile s voucher system
Education Economics, 2001Co-Authors: Patrick J McewanAbstract:In 1980, Chile began financing public and most Private Schools with vouchers. This paper uses 1997 data on over 150 000 Chilean eighth-graders to compare Spanish and mathematics achievement in six types of public and Private Schools, including voucher Schools operated by Catholic and non-religious institutions. Initial findings suggest that Catholic voucher Schools have a small advantage over most public Schools, once student and peer attributes are controlled for. There is no important difference in achievement between public and non-religious voucher Schools, most of which were created in direct response to the 1980 reforms. In some cases, it appears that non-religious voucher Schools produce slightly lower achievement than public Schools. Accounting for selection bias reduces any Private school advantages (or widens their disadvantages), although these estimates are not sufficiently precise to convincingly reject the null hypothesis of no selection bias.
Dale Ballou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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pay for performance in public and Private Schools
Economics of Education Review, 2001Co-Authors: Dale BallouAbstract:Abstract Previous research on teacher merit pay has concluded that its failure is due to the complexity of teachers' jobs and the need for teamwork and cooperation in Schools. This research re-opens the issue by comparing the use of merit pay in public and Private Schools. Merit pay is used in a large number of Private Schools. Awards are not trivial; nor is it the case that merit pay is awarded to nearly everyone. Reasons for the failure of merit pay are not inherent in teaching, but are due to specific circumstances in public education, notably the opposition of teacher unions. [JEL I20]
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Teacher recruitment and retention in public and Private Schools
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1998Co-Authors: Dale Ballou, Michael PodgurskyAbstract:Private school salaries are substantially below those in public school systems. Nonetheless, Private school heads are as satisfied as public school principals with the quality of their new teachers and substantially more satisfied with their experienced instructors. This difference remains after controlling for school and community characteristics and for the principal's tenure and educational priorities. In addition, appraisals of experienced and new teachers suggest that Private Schools are more successful in retaining the best of their new teachers and in developing the teaching skills of their faculties. Apparent reasons include greater flexibility in structuring pay, more supervision and mentoring of new teachers, and freedom to dismiss teachers for poor performance. These findings suggest that improvement in the quality of public school performance will require the use of accountability tools such as pay-for-performance and dismissal.
