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Do Profits Incentivize Academic Performance? Estimating the Relationship Between Profit Status and Student Test Scores in Charter Schools
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Roughly one-quarter of all charter school students in the U.S. attend a school managed by a for-profit management organization. Limitations in the scope of previous research prevent researchers from understanding whether ...
The Impact of Teacher Absenteeism on Student Achievement: A Study on U.S. Public Schools, Using Results of the 2011-2012 Civil Rights Data Collection
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The present work intends to deepen our understanding of teacher absenteeism and student achievement. The hypothesis is that teacher absenteeism is a strong predictor of student test scores, and that teacher absenteeism has ...
Does private school competition improve country-level student achievement? A cross-country analysis using PISA 2012.
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This paper investigates the relationship between private competition and student achievement and whether countries with higher shares of privately-managed schools have better standardized test scores. It uses the cross-country ...
The Relationship between Access to Toilets and School Enrollment in Pakistan
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The Pakistani public-school system is struggling and has fallen substantially behind other developing countries in enrollment rates. The Government of Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province, initiated a program to improve ...