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The effect of school type on academic achievement : evidence from Indonesia

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Newhouse, David
Beegle, Kathleen

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Using data from Indonesia, Newhouse and Beegle to evaluate the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety of other characteristics, score 0.15 to 0.3 standard deviations higher on the national exit exam than comparable 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. The results provide indirect evidence that higher quality inputs at public junior secondary schools promote higher test scores.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 3604.

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Keywords: Teaching and Learning; Secondary Education; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Primary Education; Gender and Education;

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  1. Mohamad Fahmi, 2009. "The Effectiveness of Private Versus Public Schools in Indonesia: Comment," Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) 200913, Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, revised Sep 2009. [Downloadable!]
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