Charter Schools: An Alternative Option in American Schooling
Encyclopedia, 2023 Charter schools are educational institutions in the United States funded through taxation but operated privately under a charter or contract with a public entity, providing alternative public education options to families.
Tong Tong +3 more
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Test Preparation and Students’ Performance: The Case of the Colombian High School Exit Exam
Cuadernos de Economía, 2020 Standardized test scores play a central role in determining college admission decisions in both developed and emerging countries. For that reason, many courses are offered by schools and other educational institutions to prepare students for the exams ...
Silvia Consuelo Gómez Soler +2 more
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An analysis of household education expenditure in Paraguay: gender biases, language gaps, and access to education [PDF]
Población y Desarrollo, 2016 Inequalities in educational achievement in Paraguay have been well-documented by geographic location, gender, and language. But little is known about the pattern of household education expenditure in Paraguay.
Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin, Paul Ervin
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Does an increase in education quality cause developing countries to catch up?
International Journal of Management and Economics, 2022 We investigate whether increasing the education quality causes increases in economic growth allowing poorer countries to catch up. To this end, we extend Nelson-Phelps's classic paper by introducing differences in education quality (proxied by students ...
Goczek Łukasz +2 more
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Applying behavioural economics in education: study of undergraduate practices of selecting higher educational institutions [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 Behavioural economics have become hot topic in research and debate in last few decades. In the context of behavioural economics, it is possible to summarize resemblances and create a system based on predication and regularities of errors, by analysing ...
Vevere Velga, Mons Arturs
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Qualidade do gasto público municipal em ensino fundamental no Brasil
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2012 Quality of municipal public spending on primary education in Brazil. The focus of this paper was to analyze the relationship between municipal public education spending and students' academic achievement, evaluated according to IDEB (Index of Basic ...
Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz
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Economics of education research: a review and future prospects [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we offer an appraisal of the economics of education research area, charting its history as a field and discussing the ways in which economists have contributed both to education research and to education policy-making.
Adnett N. +45 more
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« Nouvelle » philanthropie, capitalisme social et développement international
Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2011 We are experiencing a global paradigmatic change in the relationships between government(s), education, philanthropy and business. This article analyses the on-going changes and their consequences for educational access and opportunity.
Antonio Olmedo, Stephen Ball
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Cross-Regional Differences in Solving the Teacher Pay Rise Problem
Вопросы образования, 2014 The paper provides an overview of studies dedicated to correlations between school teacher salaries and regional economics and to the local factors affecting the size of teacher salaries.
Pavel Derkachev
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From “Quality, Not Quantity” to “Quality as Quantity”: How the “Care Economy” Became Valuable
ŒconomiaThis article investigates how the quantitative measurement of “quality” entered into U.S. social policy debates surrounding education and healthcare. Beginning in the 1960s, economic experts devised new ways of estimating “quality” by conceptualizing ...
Zachary Griffen
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