The Impact of Private Provision of Public Education : Empirical Evidence from Bogotá's Concession Schools

• Tác giả: Felipe Barrera-Osorio
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 379.3 Public policy issues in private education
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 243577
• Chủ đề: 1. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; 2. ACADEMIC EDUCATION; 3. ADULT EDUCATION; 4. BASIC EDUCATION; 5. BETTER LEARNING

Tóm tắt

 In 1999 the city of Bogota, Colombia launched the concession school program designed to broaden the coverage and quality of basic education. It consists of a contract between a group of private schools and the public educational system such that private agents provide education for low-income students. This paper tests three main hypotheses concerning the impact of concessions on the quality of education: first, dropout rates are lower in concession schools than in similar public schools
  second, other public schools nearby the concession schools have lower dropout rates in comparison with other public schools outside the area of influence
  and third, test scores from concession schools are higher than scores in similar public schools. The paper presents evidence in favor of the three hypotheses using propensity score and matching estimators.