ERIC Number: EJ1109547
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Publication Date: 2016
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Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta; Wu, Kin Bing
Education Economics, v24 n5 p465-480 2016
We examine the effect of attending private secondary school on educational achievement, as measured by students' scores in a comprehensive standardized math test, in two Indian states: Orissa and Rajasthan. We use propensity score matching (PSM) to control for any systematic differences between students attending private secondary schools and public secondary schools, and assess the sensitivity of our estimates with respect to unobservables using the Rosenbaum bounds. We find that students in private schools in rural (urban) Rajasthan scored about 1.3 (0.4) standard deviation (SD) higher than their counterparts in the public schools. Importantly, the positive private school impact in rural (urban) Rajasthan survives a large (moderate) amount of positive selection on unobservables. We do not find statistically significant difference in urban Orissa, while a positive impact of 0.3 SD in rural Orissa is susceptible to small amount of positive selection on unobservables.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Private Schools, Secondary School Students, Evidence, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Comparative Analysis, Achievement Gains, Statistical Significance, Student Records, Regression (Statistics), School Effectiveness, Questionnaires
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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