Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India

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...

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Main Authors:	Azam, Mehtabul, Kingdon, Geeta, Wu, Kin Bing
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2016
Subjects:	secondary education private school student achievement rural schools urban schools public school propensity score matching
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25018

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spelling	okr-10986-250182021-05-25T10:54:42Z Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India Azam, Mehtabul Kingdon, Geeta Wu, Kin Bing secondary education private school student achievement rural schools urban schools public school propensity score matching 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. 2016-09-07T22:21:11Z 2016-09-07T22:21:11Z 2016 Journal Article Education Economics 0964-5292 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25018 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research South Asia India
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spellingShingle	secondary education private school student achievement rural schools urban schools public school propensity score matching Azam, Mehtabul Kingdon, Geeta Wu, Kin Bing Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India
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description	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.
format	Journal Article
author	Azam, Mehtabul Kingdon, Geeta Wu, Kin Bing
author_facet	Azam, Mehtabul Kingdon, Geeta Wu, Kin Bing
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title	Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India
title_short	Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India
title_full	Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India
title_fullStr	Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India
title_full_unstemmed	Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India
title_sort	impact of private secondary schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from india
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Impact of Private Secondary Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India

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