Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia’s Schools? Preliminary Results from Year One of a Three-Year Randomized Evaluation of Partnership Schools for Liberia

Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Sandholtz

No 462, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: After one year, public schools managed by private contractors in Liberia raised student learning by 60 percent, compared to standard public schools. But costs were high, performance varied across contractors, and contracts authorized the largest contractor to push excess pupils and underperforming teachers onto other government schools.

Keywords: public-private partnership; randomized controlled trial; school management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I25 I28 L32 L33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2017-09-07
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