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Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, Justin – Brookings Institution, 2013
Existing studies from the United States, Latin America and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya--a poor country with weak public institutions--we find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Effect Size, School Effectiveness

McMahon, Walter W.; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1992
Three strategic effects on the rates of return to vocational and technical education (VOTEC) are considered: (1) the availability of complementary inputs such as general education; (2) the capacity of VOTEC to teach continuing adaptation to technical change; and (3) economies of scale that can be realized. (26 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Research, Foreign Countries
Metcalf, David H. – 1985
A partial survey of the literature on the economics of vocational training reveals three important lessons on how evaluations may be undertaken using data on pay, inputs, and outputs. The first lesson is that social, corporate, and private returns to vocational training in developing countries appear to be high enough to justify expanding training…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Research, Education Work Relationship
Hunter, John M. – 1981
Education in general and specific educational projects fit into the construct of the allocation of investment resources that is basic to economic theory. Two techniques of computing returns to education and education projects are benefit-cost ratios and rates of return, which both rely on measuring costs and benefits. While measuring costs is…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Developing Nations, Economic Research