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001			w18185
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100	1		_aForbes, Silke J.
245	1	0	_aWhen Educators Are the Learners: _bPrivate Contracting by Public Schools / _cSilke J. Forbes, Nora E. Gordon.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w18185
500			_aJune 2012.
520	3		_aWe investigate decision-making and the potential for social learning among school administrators in the market for school reform consulting services. Specifically, we estimate whether public schools are more likely to choose given Comprehensive School Reform service providers if their "peer" schools--defined by common governance or geography--have performed unusually well with those providers in the past. We find strong evidence that schools tend to contract with providers used by other schools in their own districts in the past, regardless of past performance. In addition, our point estimates are consistent with school administrators using information from peers to choose the plans they perceive to have performed best in the past. Despite choosing a market with an unusually comprehensive data source on contracts between public schools and private firms, our statistical power is sufficiently weak that we cannot reject the absence of social learning.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aH52 - Government Expenditures and Education _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI2 - Education and Research Institutions _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aL14 - Transactional Relationships • Contracts and Reputation • Networks _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aGordon, Nora E.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w18185.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w18185
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18185
942			_2ddc _cW-PAPER
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