Providing Public School Education In Developing Countries: A Theoretical Analysis

Bagala P. Biswal

No 891, Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: Provision of universal free public education has been argued for in the literature on equity ground. This paper develops a new model of public school education and demonstrates how the presence of private tutoring in developing countries, compromises the above argument. The teachers, by shirking at school and supplying private tutoring to the students at a cost, divert the benefits of free public education towards themselves. This model also conforms with the merit-cum-means principle adopted in developing countries to subsidize the education of the poor and high ability students when it is extended to an heterogeneous environment.

Keywords: imperfect monitoring; private tutoring; club (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H42 H52 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 1993-12
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