Estimating the impact of private tutoring on academic performance: primary students in Sri Lanka

Rachel Cole

Education Economics, 2017, vol. 25, issue 2, 142-157

Abstract: Worldwide private tutoring is documented extensively, but its impact is unclear. I estimate the impact of tutoring on performance to assess the degree to which tutoring is a vehicle of educational stratification in Sri Lanka. I find that on average, five months of tutoring has no impact on Year 5 students’ exam scores. I produce suggestive evidence impacts vary only slightly with advantage; so its impact on stratification is likely minimal. Policy-makers may want to urge parents to reconsider sending their children to tutoring, and further research should identify stratification mechanisms.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2016.1196163

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