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UEP Speaker: Ludger Wößmann

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The Urban Education Policy Program presents:
Dr. Ludger Wößmann
Department of Human Capital and Innovation &
Professor of Economics of Education at the
February 23rd, Noon, Barus Hall, Dewey Room
 

Public-Private Partnerships and

Schooling Outcomes

Across Countries

Dr. Ludger Wößmann will present his comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation and funding of each tested school. Across countries, public operation is associated with lower student outcomes, but public funding with better student outcomes. Thus, systems of PPPs that combine private operation with public funding do best among all possible operation-funding combinations, while PPPs that combine public operation with private funding do worst. The advantage of private operation is particularly strong in countries with large shares of public funding.
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He is Professor of Economics of Education at the University of Munich and holds a joint appointment as Head of the Department Human Capital and Innovation at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kiel and holds additional university degrees from the University of Kent at Canterbury, Marburg, Advanced Studies Program at Kiel and Technical University Munich. Woessmann has received research appointments at Harvard University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University and Aarhus Business School. His main areas of research include the economics of education, with special focus on microeconometric analyses of international student achievement tests, as well as the economics of growth and innovation. Among others, he was awarded the European Investment Bank Prize 2001, the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association 2003 and the Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement 2005.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.cesifo.de/portal/page?_pageid=36,425852&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Day/Time: Friday, February 23rd, Noon—1 pm
Place: Barus Hall, Dewey Conference Room, 2nd Floor


For more information on the Urban Education Policy Program @ Brown, please visit:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/uep_intro.php