Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers in education : case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrera Osorio, Felipe.

Patrinos, Harry Anthony.

Wodon, Quentin.

Series:

Directions in development. Human development.

Directions in development. Human development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational vouchers--Developing countries--Case studies.

Educational vouchers.

Privatization in education--Developing countries--Case studies.

Privatization in education.

Church schools--Developing countries--Case studies.

Church schools.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2009]

Summary:

While public private partnerships in education in the United States have received a lot of attention, research on such partnerships elsewhere has veen limited-even though such partnership have been steadily gaining prominence, particularly in developing countries. Aiming to fill this gap, this book presents fresh, technically sound emporical evidence on the effectiveness and cost of various pubic-private education partnerships from around the world, including voucher programs and faith-based schools.

The evidence on the impact in terms of school performance, targeting, and cost of public-private partnerships is mixed. Some evidence suggests that voucher schoools outperform public schools, but the difference between both types of schools is not as large as one might think, and is often smaller than simpe statistics suggest. Evidence on faith-based schools tends to show slightly better performance than public schools, but this is not the case in all countries. while in some countries faith-based schools reach the poor better than public schools, in other countries the reverse is observed. As for the private costs of education, evidence shows that costs depend on the systems in place in each country, but that when school choice is limited, parents can still influence the performance of their children through private expenditure for tutoring. More rigorous on such partnerships, particularly in developing countries, are necessary.

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

Returns to schooling and vouchers in Chile / Harry Anthony Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou

When schools are the ones that choose: policy analysis of screening in Chile / Dante Contreras, Sebastián Bustos, and Paulina Sepúlveda

Education vouchers in Colombia / Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer, and Juan E. Saavedra

The performance of decentralized school systems: evidence from Fe y Alegría in República Bolivariana de 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 the performance of faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon

Assessing the performance of Madrasas in rural Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury, and Amit Dar

Does money matter?: the effect of private education expenditures on academic performance in the Republic of Korea / Changhui Kang

Comparing the cost of education at public, private, and faith-based schools in Cameroon / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821379769

0821379763

9780821379776

0821379771

OCLC:

318872984