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The Impact of Private Schools, School Chains and PPPs in Developing Countries

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dc.contributor.authorCrawfurd, Lee
dc.contributor.authorHares, Susannah
dc.contributor.authorTodd, Rory
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-25T16:56:40Z
dc.date.available2024-03-25T16:56:40Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-12
dc.description.abstractThe private school sector has expanded with almost no public intervention to educate half of primary school children in many urban centers in Africa and Asia. Simple comparisons of test scores would suggest that these private schools may provide better quality than public schools, but how much of this difference is due to selection effects is unclear. Much donor and policymaker attention has proceeded on the basis that private schools do perform better, and focused on models of public subsidy to expand access, and investment in networks or chains to encourage expansion. The authors review the evidence of the effects of private schools on learning, and how that effect translates to public-private partnerships (PPPs). The authors also study the effects of private school chains. They conduct a systematic review for eligible studies, with transparent search criteria. The search resulted in over 100 studies on low-cost private schools and PPPs, with a large majority being on low-cost private schools. Their meta-analysis shows moderately strong effects from private schooling, although the limited number of experimental studies find much smaller effects than quasi-experimental studies. This advantage, though, is not nearly enough to help most children reach important learning goals. Turning to policy goals, we find that the private school advantage has not translated to public private partnerships, which have shown limited value in improving quality. They can however represent a lower-cost means of increasing access to school. We also find that private school chains perform little better than individual private schools and have little scope for achieving meaningful scale.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099249302022487289/IDU14677dd571eaf9145bb1b3e61d6b3f27ee0a0
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41269
dc.identifier.issn0257-3032 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-6971 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41269
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectCHAINS
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subjectPRIVATE SCHOOLS
dc.subjectPPPS
dc.titleThe Impact of Private Schools, School Chains and PPPs in Developing Countriesen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleThe Impact of Private Schools, School Chains and PPPs in Developing Countries
okr.date.disclosure2024-03-25
okr.date.lastmodified2024-02-02T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41269
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Development
okr.topicEducation::Education Indicators and Statistics
okr.topicEducation::Access & Equity in Basic Education
okr.unitIPG - Director (GIPDR)
okr.volume39 (1)
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