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Publications

2013 - Private responses to state failure: the growth in private education (and why) in Lagos, Nigeria. National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Columbia University, Occasional Paper No. 215.

 

2010 - School choice for the poor? The limits of marketization of primary education in rural India. CREATE Pathways to Access Research Monograph No. 23.

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Academic Journal Articles

2022 - Low-fee private schools and the teaching of mathematics in Sub-Saharan Africa

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2022 - Misalignment of policy priorities and financing for early childhood education: Evidence from Ethiopia, Liberia and mainland Tanzania, with co-authors

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2019 - Ensuring quality education? Low-fee private schools and government regulation in three sub-Saharan African capitals

 

2016 - Is there a private schooling market in poor neighbourboods in Maputo, Mozambique? Exploring the role of the non-state education sector

 

2016 - School choice in rural Nigeria? The limits of low-cost private    schooling in Kwara State

 

2013 - Access or quality? Why do families living in slums choose low-cost private schools in Lagos, Nigeria?

   

2011 - Low-cost private schooling in India: is it pro poor and equitable?

     

2009 - Can choice in primary schooling promote Education for All? Evidence from private school growth in rural Uttar Pradesh

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2021 - De facto and by-design privatisation of education in developing countries, in McCowan, T. and Unterhalter, E. (Eds.) Education and International Development: An Introduction, London, Bloomsbury Academic. 2nd Edition.

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2021 - School choice and the human right to education, in Adamson, F., Aubry, S., de Konig, M., and Dorsi, D. (Eds.), Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the Role of Private Actors in Education. London, Edward Elgar.

 

2015 - Private schooling and development: an overview, in C. Counihan, P. Dixon and S. Humble (Eds.) Handbook of International Development and Education, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar

 

2013 (with Folasade Adefisayo) - Scaling up: challenges facing low-fee private schools in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria, in P. Srivastava (Ed.) Low-fee Private Schooling: Aggravating Equity or Mitigating Disadvantage? Oxford, Symposium Books.

 

2012 (with Pauline Rose) - Is low-fee private primary schooling affordable for the poor? Evidence from rural India, in S. Robertson, A. Verger & K. Mundy (Eds.) Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.

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 Working Papers
Books

2021 - Low-Fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries. London, Bloomsbury Academic.

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Forthcoming - Cutting Their Bellies: Why people in Africa and Asia make extreme sacrifices to pay for private education.

New

2023 - Low-fee Private Schools are Families' Coping Mechanism for the "Global Learning Crisis" - and That's Okay. RISE Forum 2023.

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