CT Hsieh… - 2003 - nber.org
In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to any student
wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1,000 private schools entered the
market, and the private enrollment rate increased by 20 percentage points, with greater ...
CT Hsieh… - Journal of public Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to any student
wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1000 private schools entered the
market, and the private enrollment rate increased by 20 percentage points, with greater ...
Several countries have implemented programs that use test scores to rank schools, and to
reward or penalize them based on their students' average performance. Recently, Kane and
Staiger (2002) have warned that imprecision in the measurement of school-level test ...
M Urquiola - American Economic Review, 2005 - JSTOR
Two issues dominate the school choice debate: whether competition would make schools
more productive, and whether choice would result in sorting or stratification. In trying to
answer these questions, economists have generally focused on the consequences of ...
M Urquiola… - The American Economic Review, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper examines how schools' choices of class size and households' choices
of schools affect regression-discontinuity-based estimates of the effect of class size on
student outcomes. We build a model in which schools are subject to a class-size cap and ...
M Urquiola - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 - MIT Press
This note implements two research designs that attempt to isolate the effect of class size on
achievement. A first strategy focuses on variation in class size in rural schools with fewer
than 30 students, and hence only one classroom, per grade. Second, an approach similar ...
A Mizala, P Romaguera… - Journal of Development Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper calculates a time series of simple, standard measures of schools' relative
performance. These are drawn from a 1997–2004 panel of Chilean schools, using individual-
level information on test scores and student characteristics for each year. The results ...
A Mizala, P Romaguera, M Urquiola… - Economia, 2002 - JSTOR
Interest in improving education has thus produced a far-reaching debate about the policies
most suitable to improving its quality. At the same time, the implementation of standard
educational performance tests in several Latin American countries has permitted the ...
D Stern, N Finkelstein, M Urquiola… - Economics of Education …, 1997 - Elsevier
Recent policies have promoted work-based learning as part of the curriculum. Many
students in the US already work in part-time jobs, but spending a lot of hours per week in
after-school jobs has been found to detract from students' performance in school. Co- ...
M Urquiola - Utility privatization and regulation: a fair deal for …, 2003 - books.google.com
Like other Latin American countries, Bolivia included privatization in a package of structural
reforms that has significantly liberalized its economy over the last 15 years. As elsewhere, in
an effort to attract investment and increase efficiency, utilities were among the key ...
M Urquiola, D Stern, I Horn, C Dornsife, B Chi… - 1997 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This report, which is directed toward policymakers, educators, employers,
researchers, and others interested in the school-to-work (STW) movement, synthesizes
literature on the development and effectiveness of STW programs since 1993. Part I ...
WB MacLeod… - 2009 - nber.org
Friedman (1962) argued that a free market in which schools compete based upon their
reputation would lead to an efficient supply of educational services. This paper explores this
issue by building a tractable model in which rational individuals go to school and ...
M Urquiola… - International Journal of Educational …, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper uses household survey data to rank LAC countries' performance in two areas:(i)
getting children into school on time and keeping them there, and (ii) turning their contact with
the educational system into years of schooling. It presents multiple rankings because most ...
M Urquiola… - 2001 - lacea.org
Improving educational quality has become a central concern for policy makers in developing
countries, and they have often turned to academics for guidance on how this might be
accomplished. Perhaps surprisingly, however, economic research sheds little light on how ...
M Urquiola… - 2007 - nber.org
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response
to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a
model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class ...
PJ McEwan, M Urquiola, E Vegas, R Fernandes… - Economia, 2008 - JSTOR
n the early 1980s, Chile implemented a nationwide school choice system, under which the
government finances education via a flat per-student sub-sidy (or voucher) to the public or
private school chosen by a family. At present, about 9-4 percent of all schools (public, ...
[CITATION] The effects of user fee reductions on enrollment: evidence from a quasi-experiment
F Barrera-Osorio, LL Linden… - Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007
A Mizala… - 2007 - nber.org
The impact of competition on academic outcomes is likely to depend on whether parents are
informed about schools' effectiveness or valued added (which may or may not be correlated
with absolute measures of their quality), and on whether this information influences their ...
[CITATION] Geography and development in Bolivia: migration, urban and inustrial concentration, welfare, and convergence: 1950-1992
M Urquiola - 2000 - Inter-American Development Bank
G Barja… - 2003 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The paper describes the privatization process in Bolivia, placing emphasis on the
particularities of the capitalization mechanism that was used for this purpose, and the
regulatory framework introduced as its essential complement. With this background, the ...
M Torero, E Schroth, A Pasco-Font, M Urquiola… - Economia, 2003 - JSTOR
spihe Peruvian government privatized Compa?? a Peruana de Tel? fonos 1 (CPT) and
Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones(ENTEL) in 1 1994. Both enterprises were
purchased by Telef? nica de Espa? a. The record of the telecommunications sector under ...
C Pop-Eleches… - Department of Economics. Columbia …, 2008 - econ.upf.edu
Abstract This paper estimates school effects in the context of Romania's educational system,
in which students request entry into specific high schools via a centralized process. Their
placement depends solely on a transition score, which is a function of their performance in ...
M Urquiola - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Whether competition improves governments' efficiency is an enduring question in
Local Public Economics. Based on Tiebout's framework, recent research suggests this effect
is operative for school districts: decentralization (greater district availability) may reduce ...
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic
achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the
part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost ...
[CITATION] Arbitrary Variation in Teacher Salaries. An Analysis of Teacher Pay in Bolivia
M Urquiola… - Incentives to Improve Teaching: Lessons from Latin …, 2005
[CITATION] Capitalization and privatization in Bolivia
G Barja, D McKenzie… - Cornell University. Mimeographed, 2002
G Barja, D McKenzie… - 2004 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The wave of privatizations Latin America experienced during the 1990s was integral to
stabilization programs and a general reordering of states' roles in the regional economy.
Over the past few years, however, these privatizations have come under increasing fire. ...
A Mizala… - Documentos de trabajo, 2007 - ideas.repec.org
The impact of competition on academic outcomes is likely to depend on whether parents are
informed about schools' effectiveness or valued added (which may or may not be correlated
with absolute measures of their quality), and on whether this information influences their ...
PJ McEwan… - Unpublished manuscript, Columbia …, 2005 - sticerd.lse.ac.uk
Campbell (1960), has surged in popularity among applied economists. 3 This is especially
so among education economists, who have used the approach to evaluate the causal effects
of a wide range of schooling interventions, often in the absence of experimental research. ...
[CITATION] The Effects of User Fee Reductions on Enrollment: Evidence form a Quasi-Experiment
F Barrera-Osorio, LL Linden… - Columbia University Department of …, 2007
K Cowan, A Micco, C Pagés, M Urquiola… - Economía, 2004 - JSTOR
sa result of the Asian crisis, Chile experienced a substantial economic slowdown in 1998.
Growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) among Chile's trading partners in 1998 was a
full 2 percent below the previous five-year average, while terms of trade fell by over 5 ...
[CITATION] When school compete, how do they compete? An assessment of Chile's nationwide school voucher program. Mimeo, Princeton University y Cornell …
C Hsieh… - 2002
[CITATION] When school compete, how do the compete? An assessment of Chile's nationwide school voucher program
CT Hseih… - World Bank's Development Research Group, 2002
[CITATION] Parental choice and school markets: The impact of information on school effectiveness
A Mizala… - 2007 - Working Paper, University of …
[CITATION] Demand Matters: School District Concentration
MS Urquiola - Composition, and Educational Expenditure," The World …, 2000
[CITATION] Essays on educational financing and effectiveness in the United States and Bolivia
MS Urquiola - 2000 - University of California, Berkeley
[CITATION] Capitalization
G BARJA… - Regulation and the Poor: Access to Basic Services in …, 2001
[CITATION] qEconomic Behavior and the regression&discontinuity design: Evidence from class size reductionrMimeo
P McEwan… - 2005
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“The Effects of Generalized School Choice on Achievement and Stratification: Evidence from Chiles's School Voucher Program.”
CT Hseih… - Journal of Public Economics
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence.”
M Urquiola… - American Economic Review
[CITATION] When school compete, how do the compete
CT HSEIH… - An assessment of Chile's nationwide school voucher …, 2002
A Chong, H Ñopo, L Ronconi… - Economía, 2008 - JSTOR
wisdom holds that Latin America is a highly discriminatory society. This belief is hardly
surprising given the history of ethnic and conflicts in the region and the plethora of anecdotal
evidence rein-forcing this notion. However, whereas it cannot be argued that many ...
[CITATION] Geography and Development in Bolivia
M Urquiola, L Andersen, E Antelo, JL Evia, O Nina… - Migration, Urban and …, 1999
WB MacLeod… - 2011 - nber.org
Abstract. The ability of firms to acquire reputations for quality is a key ingredient for the
efficient provision of complex commodities in a market economy. We build a model in which
students with different innate abilities acquire skills as a function of the productivity of the ...
[CITATION] Aproximación a los Determinantes de la Distribución Personal del Ingreso en el Área Urbana de Bolivia
M Urquiola - Documento de Investigación, UDAPSO, La Paz, 1993
[CITATION] Participando en el crecimiento, expansión económica, distribución de ingreso y pobreza en el área urbana de Bolivia
M Urquiola - Cuadernos de Investigación, 1994
M Urquiola, D Stern, I Horn, C Dornsife, B Chi… - 136.165.122.102
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report synthesizes literature on the development and
effectiveness of school-to-work (STW) programs since 1993, the last year NCRVE published
a review of that literature. The report's purpose is to inform policymakers, educators, ...
LL Linden, M Urquiola - 2007 - columbia.edu
Abstract. This paper evaluates the impact of a fee reduction program launched by the city of
Bogota in 2004. The program is targeted using a proxy-mean index (the SISBEN index),
such that the probability that households benefit from the fee reduction is a discontinuous ...
M Urquiola - columbia.edu
A sense that educational outcomes need improvement is essentially universal, the more so
when it comes to developing countries. Yet such improvements have been surprisingly hard
to elicit from school systems, which sometimes display characteristics consistent with ...
CT Hsieh… - … Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and …, 2007 - Springer
A central argument in the school choice debate is that public schools are inefficient local
monopolies, and that educational quality would improve dramatically if only parents were
allowed to freely choose between schools. For example, Hoxby (2003) asks,“What is the ...
JL Evia, O Nina, M Urquiola, LE Andersen… - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper argues that considering the impact of geographical variables within
Bolivia makes feasible a considerably richer analysis. The picture that emergesis
occasionally not entirely consistent with the international evidence, but nonethelesspoints ...
M Urquiola - 2007 - iadb.org
In their solution paper, Damon and Glewwe present a useful summary of options to improve
education in Latin America and the Caribbean (henceforth LAC). This note presents three
comments. The first simply seeks to complement the authors' sound diagnosis, making the ...
K Adriana, FJ Juan, H Virginia, DT Documento… - ukpmc.ac.uk
Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain
in 1984 and quickly came to account for most new jobs. In 1997, however, the Spanish
government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment by reducing ...
CT Hsieh… - 2003 - piketty.pse.ens.fr
ABSTRACT In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to
any student wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1,000 private schools
entered the market, and the private enrollment rate increased by 20 percentage points, ...
CT Hsieh… - 2002 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to any
student wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1,000 private schools
entered the market, and the private enrollment rate increased by 20 percentage points, ...
M Urquiola - 2001 - library1.nida.ac.th
Policy makers in developing countries are increasingly interested in raising educational
quality, and often turn to economists for guidance on how this might be done. Perhaps
surprisingly, however, economic research sheds little light on how educational authorities ...
M Urquiola - Cambridge Univ Press
An inevitable weakness of the study is the short period which it covers. This makes the
references to the Kuznets curve and the long-run relation between distribution and income
level which provides the starting point for the study rather inappropriate. A more relevant ...
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response
to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a
model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class ...
M Urquiola… - Incentives to Improve Teaching - worldbank.org
Understanding teacher compensation is important in developing countries, where teacher
pay accounts for most educational expenditures. Although teacher compensation schemes
have been criticized by economists, largely because of their perceived rigidity, only a ...
[CITATION] Identifying class size in developing countries: evidence from sural schools in Bolivia
M Urquiola - 2001 - Banco Mundial
[CITATION] Bolivia. Educación primaria universal
M Urquiola - Naciones Unidas, 2000
M Urquiola - UDAPSO, La Paz, Bolivia, 1994 - orton.catie.ac.cr
SIDALC - Servicio de Informacion y Documentacion Agropecuaria de las Americas.
[CITATION] Analisis de costos del fondo de inversión social
M Urquiola - Background paper for the Social Funds Evaluation …, 2000
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