The Effect of Contracting Out Low Performing Schools on Student Performance
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low-performing schools; school quality; school closures;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2015-11-01 (Education)
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