The high return to private schooling in a low-income country
- 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.
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| Author: | Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-300490 |
| URL: | https://www.cgdev.org/publication/high-return-private-schooling-low-income-country-working-paper-279 |
| Parent Title (English): | Center for Global Development : Working Paper ; 279 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working paper / Center for Global Development (279) |
| Publisher: | Center for Global Development |
| Place of publication: | Washington, DC |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/05/28 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/05/28 |
| Issue: | Working Paper 279 |
| Page Number: | 12 |
| Note: | 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. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 347494862 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 |
