Further reading
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BOOKS / PAPERS / REPORTS
Andrabi, T., J. Das and A.I. Khwaja. A dime a day: the possibilities and limits of private schooling in Pakistan. Policy research working paper 4066. Washington DC: World Bank, 2006.
Ball, S. Education plc. London: Routledge. Charter Schools, USA, 2007. http://www.charterschools usa.com
Barrera-Osorio, F. and H.A. Patrinos. An international perspective on school vouchers: handbook of research on school choice. New Delhi: Routledge, forthcoming.
Barrera-Osorio, F. Impact of private provision of public education: empirical evidence from Bogotá’s concessions schools. Prepared for the conference on Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education, Harvard University, 5-6 October 2005.
Belfield, C. and A. Wooten. Education privatization: the attitudes and experiences of superintendents. Occasional paper no. 70. National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education. New York: Columbia University, 2003.
Bellei, C. The private-public school controversy: the case of Chile. Presented at the conference on ‘Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education’, Harvard University, 5-6 October 2005.
Bettinger, E. Lessons from private-school vouchers in Colombia. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland Ohm 2005, www.clevelandfed.org/ research/EdConf2005/Papers/BettingerPaper FINALweb.pdf
Common, R. The east-Asian region: do public-private partnerships make sense? in P. Osborne (ed.) Public-private partnerships: theory and practice in international perspective. London: Routledge, 2000.
Department for International Development/Rural Support Programme Network. Multisector dialogue on private public partnerships for the delivery of basic services in Pakistan. Education Review Office. Alternative Education Report. Wellington, 2004.
Fennell, S. Future policy choices for the education sector in Asia. Background paper for the DFID organized Asia 2015 conference, 6-7 March 2006, London.
Fennell, S. Tilting at windmills: public-private partnerships in Indian education today. RECOUP working paper 5. DFID and University of Cambridge, UK, July 2007.
Filer, R. and D. Munich. Responses of private and public schools to voucher funding: the Czech and Hungarian experience. William Davidson Institute working paper no. 360. Ann Arbor, 2000.
Gaffney, M. and A.B. Smith. New Zealand’s targeted individual entitlement scheme, in, Can the market save our schools? Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2001, 151-166.
Planning Commission. Report of the PPP sub-group on social sector. New Delhi: Government of India, 2004.
Harding, A.L. Introduction, in April L. Harding and Alexander S. Preker, Private participation in health services handbook. Washington DC: The World Bank, 2002, 7-74.
Hirschman, A. Exit, voice and loyalty: responses to decline in firms, organizations and states. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Kardar, S. Private sector in education. Lahore: Systems (Private) Limited, 2001.
Kim, J., H. Alderman and P. Orazem. Can cultural barriers be overcome in girls’ schooling? the community support program in rural Balochistan. Working paper series on impact evaluation of education reforms paper no. 10. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1998.
Kim, J., H. Alderman and P. Orazem. Can private schools subsidies increase schooling for the poor? the Quetta urban fellowship program. Working paper series on impact evaluation of education reforms paper no. 11. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1998.
Kumar, M. and P. Sarangapani (eds.). Improving government schools: what has been tried and what works. New Delhi: Books for Change, 2005.
LaRocque, N. School choice: lessons from New Zealand. Briefing paper no. 12. Education Forum, Wellington, 2005, www.educationforum.org.nz
LaRocque, N. Contracting for the delivery of education services: a typology and international examples. Education Forum, Wellington, 2006, www.educa tionforum.org.nz.
LaRocque, N. Public private partnerships in basic education: an international review. Berkshire, UK: CfBT Education Trust, 2008.
Lopez, R., V. Thomas and Y. Wang. Addressing the education puzzle: the distribution of education and economic reform. Policy research working paper 2031. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1998.
McMeekin, Robert W. Networks of schools. Education policy analysis archives. Tempe: Arizona State University, 2003, http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n16
Mora, J. Public-private partnerships in Latin America: a review based on four case studies. Prepared for the conference on Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education. Cambridge: Harvard University, 5-6 October 2005.
New South Wales Treasury. New schools privately financed project: post implementation review. Sydney: Office of Financial Management, 2005.
Education Policy Studies Laboratory. Organizations: 2005-2006. Eighth Annual Report. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.
Osborne, P. (ed.). Public-private partnerships: theory and practice in international perspective. London: Routledge, 2000.
Patrinos, H.A. Education contracting: scope of future research. Program on Education Policy and Governance Report 05–23. Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 2005.
Patrinos, H.A. and N. LaRocque. Enhancing accountability in schools: what can choice and contracting contribute. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007.
Patrinos, H.A. and S. Sosale. Mobilizing the private sector for public education: a view from the trenches. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007.
Patrinos, Harry Anthony, Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Juliana Guaqueta. The role and impact of public-private partnership in education. Washington DC: The World Bank, 2009.
Poterba, J. Government intervention in the markets for education and health care: how and why?’, in V. Fuchs (ed.) Individual and social responsibility: child care, education, medical care and long-term care in America. National Bureau of Economic Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Pritchett, L. Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education, 2004. http://www.lpritchett.org
Rodriguez, A. and K. Hovde. The challenge of school autonomy: supporting principals. LCSHD paper series no. 77. Washington DC: World Bank, 2002.
Savas, E.S. Privatization and public-private partnerships. N.Y.: Chatham House Publishers, 2000.
Snell, L. Charter schools as school privatization. Reason Public Policy Institute, 4 September 2002, www.rppi.org
Sosale, S. Trends in private sector development in World Bank education projects. Policy research working paper 2452. Washington DC: World Bank, 2000.
Srivastava, P. Neither voice nor loyalty: school choice and the low-fee private sector in India. Research publications series. Occasional paper no. 134. New York: National Center for the Study of Privatisation in Education, 2007.
Swope, J. and M. Latorre. Fe y Alegría schools in Latin America: educational communities where the pavement ends. Santiago: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación, 2000, 104-105.
Tooley, J. and P. Dixon. Private schools for the poor: a case study from India. CfBT research paper, 2003.
Vanourek, G. State of the charter school movement 2005: trends, issues, and indicators. Washington DC: Charter School Leadership Council, 2005.
Wang, Y. Public-private partnerships in health and education: conceptual issues and options. Prepared for Manila Social Policy Forum: The New Social Agenda for East, Southeast and Central Asia. Joint ADB-World Bank Conference, 9-12 November 1999.
Woessmann, L. Public-private partnerships in schooling: cross-country evidence on their effectiveness in providing cognitive skills. Research report PEPG 05-09. Program on Education Policy and Governance. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2005.
World Bank, Colombia: contracting education services. Report no. 31841-CO. Washington DC, 2005.
ARTICLES
Alderman, H., J. Kim and P. Orazem. Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: the Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments. ‘Economics of Education Review’ 22(3): 2003: 265-274.
Angrist, J., E. Bettinger and M. Kremer. Long-term educational consequences of secondary school vouchers: evidence from administrative records in Colombia. ‘American Economic Review’ 96(3): 2006: 847-862.
Angrist, J., E. Bettinger, E. Bloom, E. King and M. Kremer. Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia: evidence from a randomized natural experiment. ‘American Economic Review’ 92(5): 2002: 1535-58.
Balagopal, S. Understanding educational innovation: the case of Ekalavya. ‘Educational Dialogue’ 1(1): 2003: 97-121.
Chubb, J. and M. Moe. Politics, markets, and the organization of schools. ‘The American Political Science Review’ 82(4): 1988: 1065-1087.
Coady, D. and S. Parker. Cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico. ‘Review of Development Economics’ 8(3): 2004: 440-451.
Datta, Amrita. Public-private partnerships in India: a case for reform? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 44(33): 15 August 2009.
Day Ashley, L. From the margins to the mainstream: private school outreach inclusion for out-of-school children in India. ‘International Journal of Educational Development’ 25(2): 2005.
Ghosh, Asha. Public-private or a private public? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 40(47): 19 November 2005.
Hannaway, J. Contracting as a mechanism for managing education services. Consortium for Policy Research in Education. Policy Brief RB–28, 1999.
Hirschman, A. Exit, voice and the state. ‘World Politics’ 31(1): 1978: 90-107.
Jain, Pankaj S. and Ravindra H. Dholakia. Right to education act and public-private partnership. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ XLV(8): 20 February 2010: 78-80.
Kim, J. et al. Can private school subsidies increase enrolment for the poor? The Quetta urban fellowship program. ‘World Bank Economic Review’ 13(3): 1999: 443-465.
Kingdon, G. Quality and efficiency of private and public education: a case-study of urban India. ‘Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics’ (Department of Economics, University of Oxford) 58(1): 1996: 57-82.
Kumar, Krishna. Partners in education. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 43(3): 19 January 2008.
Levin, H.M. The public private nexus in education. ‘American Behavioral Scientist’ 43(1): 1999: 124-137.
Meek, Jim. School’s out. ‘Summit Magazine’ 4(1): March 2001, www.summitconnects.com
Menon, M. On laziness and tenancy. ‘The Hindu’: 11 August 2002.
Molnar, A. et al. Profiles of for-profit education management. 8th annual report 2005-06. Education in Policy Studies Laboratory. Tempe AZ: Arizona State University, 2006.
Narayan, Venu. The private and the public in school education. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ XLV(6): 6 February 2010: 23-26.
Patrinos, H.A. Market forces in education. ‘European Journal of Education’ 35(1): 2000: 61-80.
Tilak, Jandhyala B.G. Neither vision nor policy. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ XLV(13): 27 March 2010.
Tooley, J. Private schools for the poor. ‘Education Next’: Winter 2005: 22-32.
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