Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal
研究了社会动机如何提升私立学校的教育质量，以尼泊尔为例，发现社会动机驱动的信托学校在标准化考试成绩和性价比上均优于其他类型学校。
Social motivation can promote efficiency of public service delivery though its role in providing schooling is little understood. We provide both theoretical and empirical insights as to why not-for-profit private schools could enhance excellence in schooling, using Nepal as a case study. Results suggest that socially motivated trust schools outperform all other types of schools irrespective of whether we consider standardised test scores, absolute or relative to school expenditure per student. Results are robust and highlight that trust school’s social objective, coupled with private financing, ownership, and management that minimises its agency costs, is key to their value for money.