The Effect of School Type on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Indonesia

• Tác giả: David Newhouse
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 899.22 Literatures of non-Austronesian languages of Oceania, of
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 246307
• Chủ đề: 1. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; 2. ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; 3. CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS; 4. EDUCATION LEVEL; 5. EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Tóm tắt

Using data from Indonesia, Newhouse and Beegle to evaluate the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety of other characteristics, score 0.15 to 0.3 standard deviations higher on the national exit exam than comparable privately schooled peers. This finding is robust to OLS, fixed-effects, and instrumental variable estimation strategies. Students attending Muslim private schools, including Madrassahs, fare no worse on average than students attending secular private schools. The results provide indirect evidence that higher quality inputs at public junior secondary schools promote higher test scores.