The Performance of Decentralized School Systems : Evidence from Fe y Alegría in Venezuela

• Tác giả: Hunt Allcott
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 379.15 Control of public education
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 326884
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION; 2. APTITUDE; 3. AUTONOMOUS SCHOOLS; 4. AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; 5. AVERAGE SCORE

Tóm tắt

This program evaluation estimates the effects on standardized test scores of graduating from the Fe y Alegría private school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly larger for households at the bottom of the distribution, and smaller for those at the top. The authors posit that the better performance of the Fe y Alegría system stems from their labor contract flexibility and decentralized administrative structure.