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Replication data for: The High Returns to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication data for: The High Returns to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28145
 
Creator Bold, Tessa
Kimenyi, Mwangi
Mwabu, Germano
Sandefur, Justin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Existing studies from the United States, Latin America, and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya—a poor country with weak public institutions—we find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation. This finding is robust to endogenous sorting of more able pupils into private schools. The magnitude of the effect dwarfs the impact of any rigorously tested intervention to raise performance within public schools. Furthermore, nearly two-thirds of private schools operate at lower cost than the median government school.
 
Subject education
 
Date 2011-12