Do Public Colleges in Developing Countries Provide Better Education than Private Ones? Evidence from General Education Sector in India. CEE DP 130

Autor/inn/en	Rubinstein, Yona; Sekhri, Sheetal
Institution	London School of Economics & Political Science, Centre for the Economics of Education
Titel	Do Public Colleges in Developing Countries Provide Better Education than Private Ones? Evidence from General Education Sector in India. CEE DP 130
Quelle	(2011), (62 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Evidence; General Education; Public Colleges; Outcomes of Education; Exit Examinations; College Graduates; Foreign Countries; Public Education; Private Colleges; Developing Nations; Educational Quality; Comparative Analysis; College Students; Correlation; Cost Effectiveness; Higher Education; College Admission; Dropouts; Withdrawal (Education); India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Ausland; Öffentliche Erziehung; Privathochschule; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Collegestudent; Korrelation; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Kursabbruch; Indien
Abstract	Public college graduates in many developing countries outperform graduates of private ones on the college exit exams. This has often been attributed to the cutting edge education provided in public colleges. However, public colleges are highly subsidized, suggesting that the private-public education outcome gap might reflect the pre-determined quality of the students who sort into public colleges rather than the causal impact of the public tertiary education on students' outcomes. We evaluate the impact of public colleges using a newly assembled unique data set that links admission data with the educational outcomes on a set of common exit exams in India. Admission to general education public colleges is strictly based on the results of the Senior Secondary School examinations. We exploit this feature in a Regression Discontinuity Design, and find that the public colleges have no added value in the neighborhood of the admission cut off scores. Data appendix and supplemental material appendix are included. (Contains 15 figures, 15 tables and 42 footnotes.) [This report was funded by the PSTC at Brown University.] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10