TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrera Osorio,Felipe
AU  - Patrinos,Harry Anthony
AU  - Wodon,Quentin
TI  - Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers
T2  - Directions in development
SN  - 9780821379769 (alk. paper)
AV  - LB2828.7 .E47 2009
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Washington DC
PB  - World Bank/IBRD
KW  - Educational vouchers
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Privatization in education
KW  - Church schools
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 Alegría 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; License restrictions may limit access
UR  - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7690469
ER  -