BACKGROUND Anemia is a major public health problem in preschool children in Alagoas, Brazil, especially in the younger population, because of a positive correlation between hemoglobin level and age. However, due to the lack of studies, it is not known how widespread this condition is among older children or how it is associated with socioeconomic status. The aim of this study was to investigate...

Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of private schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups are used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot schools were successful in urban areas, but relative failures in rural areas. Urban schools benefited from larger supplies of children not served by government...

This paper uses an innovative approach to evaluate educational performance of Spanish students in PISA 2009. Our purpose is to decompose their overall inefficiency between different components with a special focus on studying the differences between public and state subsidized private schools. We use a technique inspired by the non-parametric Free Disposal Hull (FDH) and the application of robu...

BACKGROUND Overweight prevalence among Guatemalan girls is higher in public than in private schools. Little is known about adolescent girls' perceptions of the right ways to achieve a healthy weight. This study examines public and private school adolescent girls' perceptions of a "healthy weight," and barriers and facilitators to achieving it. METHODS We conducted 4 focus groups in public and...

This study examines the incentives for municipalities and private schools to participate in a national voucher program. Cost-minimizing municipalities are predicted to participate when they have relatively few students who are under-served by existing public schools and when there is an elastic supply of private school spaces. Private schools are assumed to be monopolistically competitive with ...

School Administrators’ Approach to Cooperation and Its Impact on Development of Cooperative Programs M.H. Hasani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Teachers as the main element in the educational system require more attention. However, the added attention needs not to be in the form of additional pay or welfare programs. What needs to be done is delegating power and allowing them to decide on...

This paper examines the impact of the type of school (public or private) an individual attends on two dimensions Australian parents indicate are important in school choice: student attitudes and achievement. It exploits longitudinal data that captures individuals who change high schools to estimate how much of the apparent gaps in attitudes and achievement between students who attend different ...

PROBLEM To quantify the relative prevalence of traditional (education, research, service) and emerging (prevention, diversity, primary care, distribution, cost control) themes in medical school mission statements. APPROACH In 2011, the authors obtained and analyzed the mission statements from 136 MD-granting and 34 DO-granting medical schools. They read each for the presence of traditional an...

The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school. The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas. For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and private school enrolment is found. For secondary schools, a significant link emerges. For every four immigrants who...