School Choice and Private Tutoring

Hiroki Tanaka and Masaya Yasuoka
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Hiroki Tanaka: Doshisha University

No 255, Discussion Paper Series from School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University

Abstract: Many related studies reported in the literature examine how public school education and private school education affect human capital accumulation. Public school education is financed by taxation but private school education is financed by households. Our paper sets a human capital accumulation model with school education and private tutoring and examines how private tutoring affects human capital accumulation. As shown by our paper, because of private tutoring, inequality of human capital accumulation exists in the case of public school education. Moreover, our paper shows that if public school education is complementary with private tutoring, then low income households are unable to choose public school education because of private tutoring costs. Therefore, public school education is not a redistribution policy for low income households.

Keywords: Human capital accumulation; Private tutoring; School education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2023-08
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