Dodging Adverse Selection: How Donor Type and Governance Condition Aid's Effects on School Enrollment

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2044-2053

  Christensen, Zachary ^a   Homer, Dustin ^a   Nielson, Daniel L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Education; Enrollment rates; Foreign aid; Latent growth; Less developed countries

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATION; INTERNATIONAL AID; PRIMARY EDUCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054050334     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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