Achievement gap between public and private primary schools in sub-Saharan Africa

Écart des performances scolaires entre les écoles primaires publiques et privées en Afrique subsaharienne

Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo
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Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo: Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon.

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Abstract: This paper aims to examine the influence of school infrastructure, classroom equipment and teachers' working conditions (school effect) on the academic achievement gap between public and private primary schools in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on a sample of 60,767 students from the PASEC 2019 survey. The econometric results, obtained using an Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition model, show that public primary education services perform less well than those in the private sector. Improving school infrastructure, classroom equipment, and teachers' working conditions in public schools could reduce this gap in school performance.

Keywords: School performance; Africa; Public and government schools; Teacher working conditions; School infrastructure; Afrique; École publique et privée; Performance scolaire; Conditions de travail des enseignants; Infrastructure scolaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-02-26
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Published in European Review of Service Economics and Management, 2025, 2024-2 (18), pp.123-154. ⟨10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-17937-5.p.0123⟩

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DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-17937-5.p.0123

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