The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement

M Asadullah

No 8233, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than students attending non-madrasah schools. However, failure to account for non-random sorting over-estimates the negative influence of madrasahs on student achievement. Evidence on the magnitude of this bias is presented. Once selection effect is taken into account, madrasah disadvantage in English is small while that in maths becomes insignificant. Given the overall low level of achievement, this suggests that madrasah students perform just as poorly as those from non-madrasah schools in rural Bangladesh.

Keywords: madrasahs; school quality; Bangladesh; instrumental variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D04 I21 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2014-06
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Published - published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61 (4), 1550052-01

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Journal Article: THE EFFECT OF ISLAMIC SECONDARY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (2016)
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