The Economic journal (London), 2010-08, Vol.120 (546), p.F229-F255
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- "Every catholic child in a catholic school": Historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition and student achievement across countries
- Ist Teil von
- The Economic journal (London), 2010-08, Vol.120 (546), p.F229-F255
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Nineteenth-century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition on student achievement in cross-country student-level analyses. Our results show that larger shares of privately operated schools lead to better student achievement in mathematics, science and reading, and to lower total education spending, even after controlling for current Catholic shares.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0013-0133, 1468-0297eISSN: 1468-0297DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02375.xTitel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1011847490
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 19th century, Academic achievement, Allgemein bildende Schule, Bildungsniveau, Catholic schools, Catholicism, Causality, Competition, Countries, Economic competition, Education, Education policy, Education reform, Education systems, Educational enrolment, FEATURE: NEW EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS IN THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION, Funding, History of education, Katholizismus, OECD-Staaten, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), Private education, Private schools, Privatschule, Public schools, Region, Schooling, State schools, Students, Studies, Wettbewerb