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McEwan, Patrick J. – Economics of Education Review, 2013
Chile operates one of the oldest and largest school feeding programs in Latin America, targeting higher-calorie meals to relatively poorer schools. This paper evaluates the impact of higher-calorie meals on the education outcomes of public, rural schools and their students. It applies a regression-discontinuity design to administrative data,…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Enrollment, Foreign Countries, Nutrition
Chumacero, Romulo A.; Gomez, Daniel; Paredes, Ricardo D. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
One of the pillars of the educational voucher system is that competition among schools to attract students would improve the quality of the education. Surveys to parents and previous work suggested that families rank the distance of the school from their home as the most important factor for choosing a school. They also suggest that parents…
Descriptors: School Choice, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers
Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili – Economics of Education Review, 2013
We propose a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Our estimation considers idiosyncratic variables at the school, class, and student levels. Our model is applied to a sample of students in fourth…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Nonparametric Statistics, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Elementary School Students
Anand, Priyanka; Mizala, Alejandra; Repetto, Andrea – Economics of Education Review, 2009
This paper estimates the impact of private education on the academic achievement of low-income students in Chile. To deal with selection bias, we use propensity score matching to compare the test scores of reduced-fee paying, low-income students in fee-charging private voucher schools to those of similar students in public schools and free private…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Bellei, Cristian – Economics of Education Review, 2009
This study (an impact evaluation of the Chilean full school day program) uses difference-in-differences to estimate the effect of a large increase in instructional time on high school students' academic achievement. The main findings are (i) the program had a positive effect on students' achievement in both mathematics and language; (ii) the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries