The Effect of School Type on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Indonesia

Autor/inn/en	Newhouse, David; Beegle, Kathleen
Titel	The Effect of School Type on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Indonesia
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2006) 3, S.529-557 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Foreign Countries; Junior High School Students; Exit Examinations; Private Schools; Public Schools; Student Evaluation; High School Graduates; Ethnic Groups; Performance Based Assessment; Input Output Analysis; School Choice; Indonesia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Ausland; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Ethnie; Leistungsermittlung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Indonesien
Abstract	Using Indonesian data, this paper evaluates the impact of school type on the academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7-9). Public school graduates, after controlling for a wide variety of characteristics, score 0.17 to 0.3 standard deviations higher on the national exit exam than their privately schooled peers. This finding is robust to OLS, fixed effects, and instrumental variable estimation strategies. Students attending Muslim private schools, including Madrassahs, fare no worse on average than students attending secular private schools. Our results provide indirect evidence that higher-quality inputs at public junior secondary schools promote higher test scores. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10