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Comparing private and government schools in India: the devil is in the maths

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  • Sunil Mitra Kumar

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Recent research shows that the gap in learning achievement between private and government schools in India can be explained away by self-selection. Analysing four rounds of panel data and distinguishing between ‘knowing’ and ‘applying’ dimensions of maths learning, I find that there is no private school advantage in the applying domain but that there is an advantage in the knowing domain.

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  • Sunil Mitra Kumar, 2018. "Comparing private and government schools in India: the devil is in the maths," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(6), pages 409-414, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:25:y:2018:i:6:p:409-414
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1327118
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    1. Kumar, Deepak & Choudhury, Pradeep Kumar, 2021. "Do private schools really produce more learning than public schools in India? Accounting for student’s school absenteeism and the time spent on homework," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).

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