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The Economics of Private Tutoring

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Dessy, Sylvain E. ()
St-Amour, Pascal
Vencatachellum, Désiré

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This paper develops a two-sector, general equilibrium, overlapping generations model to study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of private tutoring, when education is publicly provided. Young agents have heterogeneous endowments of human capital, which they can augment through mandatory public education, and elective private tutoring. Old agents work in the production sector and/or supply education services. In this model, the selection of teachers by the government induces a rat race which acts as a catalyst of private tutoring.

Cette analyse développe un modèle dynamique bi-sectoriel de générations imbriquées afin d'étudier les conditions nécessaires et suffisantes pour l'existence du tutorat privé, lorsque l'éducation publique est conjointement offerte. Les agents jeunes ont des dotations hétérogènes de capital humain, qu'ils peuvent accroître par l'éducation publique obligatoire et par le tutorat privé libre. Les agents vieux travaillent dans le secteur de la production et/ou offrent des services d'éducation. Dans ce modèle, le mode de sélection des enseignants par le gouvernement prend la forme d'un tournoi qui agit comme catalyseur du tutorat privé.

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Paper provided by Université Laval - Département d'économique in its series Cahiers de recherche with number 9809.

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Keywords: Human Capital; Private Tutoring; Public Education; Tournament Design;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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