Does private school competition improve country-level student achievement? A cross-country analysis using PISA 2012.
Creator
D'Agostino, Aldo
Advisor
Johnson, Erica
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between private competition and student achievement and whether countries with higher shares of privately-managed schools have better standardized test scores. It uses the cross-country OLS and instrumental variable estimation approaches and a covariate-rich dataset, PISA 2012, which measures math and reading literacy of 15-year-olds in more than 30 OECD and non-OECD countries. The privately-managed school share coefficient is not statistically significant at any conventional level after controlling for large subsets of student and family characteristics, school inputs, and country-level controls. These null results suggest the earlier positive cross-country evidence should be interpreted with caution and further research recommendations are briefly discussed.
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M.P.P.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1040786Date Published
2016Subject
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Georgetown University
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37 leaves
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