TY  - UNPD
A1  - Bold, Tessa
A1  - Kimenyi, Mwangi
A1  - Mwabu, Germano
A1  - Sandefur, Justin
T1  - The high return to private schooling in a low-income country
T2  - Center for Global Development : Working Paper ; 279
N2  - Existing studies from the United States, Latin America, and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya—a poor country with weak public institutions—we find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation. This finding is robust to endogenous sorting of more able pupils into private schools. The magnitude of the effect dwarfs the impact of any rigorously tested intervention to raise performance within public schools. Furthermore, nearly twothirds of private schools operate at lower cost than the median government school.
T3  - Working paper / Center for Global Development - 279 
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30049
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-300490
UR  - https://www.cgdev.org/publication/high-return-private-schooling-low-income-country-working-paper-279
N1  - The Center for Global Development is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor. Use and dissemination of this Working Paper is encouraged; however, reproduced copies may not be used for commercial purposes. Further usage is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons License.
IS  - Working Paper 279
PB  - Center for Global Development
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -