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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Private Schooling"”.
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Private schooling and state support in Malta
The dissertation analyses the affordability of private education in Malta. It identifies trends in private education fees and other related costs in the past seven years and examines them in terms of household expenditure. It also evaluates the role of the State support to parents and private …
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Private school choice and the returns to private schooling
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Educational transformation in transitional China and Russia: a comparative analysis of private schooling in Beijing and Moscow
This thesis is a comparative study of private schooling in Beijing and Moscow. It studies the educational transformation in transitional China and Russia. This innovative study goes beyond the comparative social, economic and cultural measurement of selected private schools and analyses the role of …
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Access to private schooling under the Right to Education Act in Rajasthan, India: Exploring exclusion amongst the Scheduled Caste groups
… ‘the economically weaker’ and ‘disadvantaged’ in private schools at the elementary level. Considering this legislative provision, it is important to identify the extent to which it has affected the access of private school education for the Scheduled Caste (SC) children – one of the constitutional …
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The Societal Impacts of Private School Choice around the World
… as Education Secretary of the United States, private school choice – in the form of vouchers, tuition tax-credits, and education savings accounts – has become increasingly policy relevant. While an introduction of competitive pressures into the schooling sector may improve educational quality …
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Fiscal and regulatory state policy for private schools in South Africa : (a policy options analysis)
… elected South African government as regards private schools. The paper establishes the context of contemporary and historical state policy for private schools in South Africa in combination with a comparative international perspective, a summary of arguments in the literature for and against …
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Essays on economics of school and residential choices.
… studies school and residential choices when private schooling is available and attending a public school is free of charge but requires a residence in the school attendance zone. Each of the three chapters focuses on different issues. The first chapter develops a model of competition between …
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The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Children's Education in El Salvador
… public schools and larger relative effect for private schooling (0.14% vs. 0.43% respectively). Remittances on the other hand only influence private school enrolment, where a percent increase in remittances leads to 0.37% increase in average enrolment within a state, driven principally by …
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Progressive Education in Transition: An Intellectual History
… alternatives within the field in both public and private schooling. By taking a look into the rearview mirror historically of where public education in America has been and then situating ourselves within the conversation by returning forward to the present, one can gain further understanding of …
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Promoting the "classroom and playground of Europe": Swiss private school prospectuses and education-focused tourism guides, 1890-1945
… study and tourism. The historically entangled private schooling and tourism industries have steadily communicated idealised images of educational tourism in Switzerland via advertising. Concentrating on the period 1890 -1945 – when promotional ties between tourism organisations and private …
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Essays on the organization of science and education
… reforms by estimating the demand elasticity for private schooling using variation from sibling discounts at Catholic schools. Because families differ in their number and spacing of children, this variation allows us to isolate within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices. We find that a …
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A direct finance in housing market
… the Central Business District, the distance to private schooling cluster and the percentage of population with graduate diploma are significant factors to explain the premium on the houses in Gangnam districts. After controlling for observed characteristics, the geographical premium due to …
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Essays in economic development and education
… of this dissertation examines the market for private school. Private school market shares are rising steadily in many developing countries, but we have a limited understanding of how private schools set prices, how parents respond, and how this affects enrollment and performance in …