Documents et rapports
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Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments (anglais)
Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning environment. This paper examines the effects of low-cost, group-based parental involvement...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9462 Date du document: 29 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Gertler,Paul J.,Nakajima,Nozomi,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Evaluating the impacts of public student subsidies to low-cost private schools in Pakistan (anglais)
The authors examine the impacts of accountability-based public per-student subsidies provided to low-cost private schools in Punjab, Pakistan on student enrollment and school inputs. Program entry is contingent...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100211 Date du document: 5 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Raju,Dhushyanth
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Expanding educational opportunities in remote parts of the world : evidence from a RCT of a public-private partnership in Pakistan (anglais)
This brief summarizes the expanding educational opportunities in remote parts of the world: evidence from a Randomized Control Trial, or RCT of a public-private partnership for the Summer 2009 in Pakistan...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81322 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Blakeslee, David,Hoover, Matthew,Linden,Leigh,Raju,Dhushyanth
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The effects of user fee reductions on enrollment : evidence from a quasi-experiment (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled The effects of user fee reductions on enrollment : evidence from a quasi-experiment, conducted between 2004 and present in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81473 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Linden,Leigh,Urquiola,Miguel
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Colombia - The use and misuse of computers in education : evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a language arts program (anglais)
This brief summarizes the use and misuse of computers in education: evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a language arts program in Colombia for the period 2006. This paper presents the evaluation...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81515 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Linden,Leigh,Barrera-Osorio, Felipe
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Incentivizing schooling for learning : evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches (anglais)
This paper evaluates a primary school scholarship program in Cambodia with two different targeting mechanisms, one based on poverty level and the other on baseline test scores ("merit"). Both targeting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6541 Date du document: 1 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Filmer,Deon P.
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Pakistan : can low-cost private schools improve learning? (anglais)
Education is central to giving children the building blocks for a life free of poverty. When schools fail to deliver quality education, children are left without the skills and knowledge they need to realize...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 73367 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Raju,Dhushyanth,Marcus,Aliza
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Evaluating public per-student subsidies to low-cost private schools : regression-discontinuity evidence from Pakistan (anglais)
This study estimates the causal effects of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at low-cost private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment and schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5638 Date du document: 1 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Raju,Dhushyanth
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Using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique to analyze learning outcomes changes over time : an application to Indonesia's results in PISA mathematics (anglais)
The Oaxaca-Blinder technique was originally used in labor economics to decompose earnings gaps and to estimate the level of discrimination. It has been applied since in other social issues, including education...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5584 Date du document: 1 mars 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Garcia Moreno,Vicente A.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Porta Pallais,Emilio Ernesto
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Short-run learning dynamics under a test-based accountability system : evidence from Pakistan (anglais)
Low student learning is a common finding in much of the developing world. This paper uses a relatively unique dataset of five semiannual rounds of standardized test data to characterize and explain the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5465 Date du document: 1 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Raju,Dhushyanth
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Decentralized decision-making in schools : the theory and evidence on school-based management : Toma de decisiones descentralizada en la escuela : la teoria y la evidencia sobre la administracion escolar descentralizada (espagnol)
The school-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the last decade. The World Bank's work on school-based management emerged from a need to better define the concept, review the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 48740 Date du document: 28 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Fasih,Tazeen,Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Santibanez,Lucrecia Margarita
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Decentralized decision-making in schools : the theory and evidence on school-based management (anglais)
The school-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the last decade. The World Bank's work on school-based management emerged from a need to better define the concept, review the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 48740 Date du document: 2 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Fasih,Tazeen,Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Santibanez,Lucrecia Margarita
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The role and impact of public-private partnerships in education (anglais)
The book examines five ways through which public-private contracts can help countries meet education goals. First, public-private partnerships can increase access to good quality education for all, especially...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 47949 Date du document: 23 mars 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Barrera-Osorio, Felipe
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The use and misuse of computers in education : evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia (anglais)
This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4836 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Linden,Leigh
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Conditional cash transfers in education : design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia (anglais)
This paper presents an evaluation of multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries - the conditional cash transfer - with a student level randomization that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4580 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Bertrand,Marianne,L. Linden, Leigh,Perez-Calle, Francisco
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The impact of private provision of public education : empirical evidence from Bogota's concession schools (anglais)
In 1999 the city of Bogota, Colombia launched the concession school program designed to broaden the coverage and quality of basic education. It consists of a contract between a group of private schools...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4121 Date du document: 1 février 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe