000294838 001__ 294838 000294838 005__ 20250213113329.0 000294838 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1080/00220388.2015.1034109 000294838 037__ $$aARTICLE 000294838 245__ $$aThe State, socialisation, and private schooling$$bwhen will governments support alternative producers? 000294838 269__ $$a2015 000294838 336__ $$aJournal Articles 000294838 520__ $$aUnderstanding 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. 000294838 580__ $$aIn: The Journal of Development Studies. - Abingdon. - Volume 51(2015), No. 7, pages 784–807 000294838 700__ $$aPritchett, Lant 000294838 700__ $$aViarengo, Martina 000294838 8564_ $$9eca1f723-96c5-4480-8189-66faabedf896$$s339375$$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294838/files/Viarengo_Journal_dev_studies_2015.pdf 000294838 8564_ $$92b84d34b-b264-49bd-96e9-d828528d1a9c$$xpdfa$$s1738242$$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294838/files/Viarengo_Journal_dev_studies_2015.pdf?subformat=pdfa 000294838 901__ $$uInternational Economics Department$$0319285 000294838 901__ $$uCentre for Finance and Development 000294838 909CO $$ooai:repository.graduateinstitute.ch:294838$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pIHEID:Explore 000294838 937__ $$aARTICLE-2017-018 000294838 980__ $$aARTICLE