Evaluating the Effectiveness of Private Education across Countries: A Comparison of Methods

Vincent Vandenberghe and Stéphane Robin ()
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Stéphane Robin: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CRESGE - Centre de recherches économiques sociologiques et de gestion [Lille] - UCL - Université catholique de Lille

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Abstract: This paper aims at estimating the effect of private vs. public education on pupils' achievement using the 2000 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey and taking into account the potential bias due to the existence of unobserved confounding factors. To deal with these selection biases, three methods are implemented in a comparative perspective: (1) instrumental variable (IV) regression; (2) Heckman's two-stage approach and (3) propensity score matching. This exercise underlines important divergences between the results of parametric and non-parametric estimators. All results, however, show that private education does not generate systematic benefits.

Keywords: Educational economics; Human capital; Private education; IV and Heckman models; Propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (4), pp.487-506. ⟨10.1016/j.labeco.2004.02.007⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.02.007

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