@article{Pritchett:294838,
      recid = {294838},
      author = {Pritchett, Lant and Viarengo, Martina},
      title = {The State, socialisation, and private schooling when will  governments support alternative producers?},
      address = {2015},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {Understanding the institutional features that can improve  learning outcomes and reduce inequality is a top priority  for international and development organisations around the  world. Economists appear to have a good case for support to  non-governmental alternatives as suppliers of schooling.  However, unlike other policy domains, freer international  trade or privatisation, economists have been remarkably  unsuccessful in promoting the adoption of this idea. We  develop a general positive model of why governments  typically produce schooling which introduces the key notion  of the lack of verifiability of socialisation and  instruction of beliefs, which makes third party contracting  for socialisation problematic. We use the model to explain  variations around the world in levels of private schooling.  We also predict the circumstances in which efforts to  promote the different alternatives to government production  – like charter, voucher, and scholarship – are likely to be  successful.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294838},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1034109},
}