Private Tutoring and Distribution of Student Academic Outcomes: An Implication of the Presence of Private Tutoring for Educational Inequality

Changhui Kang () and Yoonsoo Park
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Yoonsoo Park: Sookmyung Women’s University

Korean Economic Review, 2021, vol. 37, 287-326

Abstract: As private tutoring becomes globally widespread, many worry that an expansion of private tutoring aggravates educational inequality and ultimately intergenerational mobility. We address the issues by estimating the average and distributional effects of private tutoring on academic outcomes of Korean middle school students. Applying a semiparametric model recovering distributions in difference-in-differences models, we discover that the presence of private tutoring shifts the upper half of the outcome distribution rightward, but it exerts statistically insignificant effects on the lower half of the distribution. Our result suggests that the expansion of private tutoring in an education system is expected to aggravate educational inequality more than an empirical method reporting modest average effects suggests.

Keywords: Private Tutoring; Academic Outcome; Educational Inequality; Quantile Treatment Effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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