Comparing the Performance of Faith-Based and Government Schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo using data from the 2004-2005 "123" survey. More than two thirds of primary school students attend faith-based government-assisted schools. Both types of school cater to a similar population that is overwhelmingly poor. Faith-based schools perform slightly better at least in some dimensions than government schools, but the differences between the two types of schools are small and not statistically significant.

Keywords: Primary education; faith-based; performance; poverty; Democratic Republic of Congo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 H44 I21 L33 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-edu, nep-lab, nep-ltv and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education: Case Studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, edited by F. Barrera-Osorio, H. A. Patinos, and Q. Wodon, Directions in Development, World Bank, Washington, DC (2009): pp. 119-135

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16463/1/MPRA_paper_16463.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:16463

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().