Comparing private and government schools in India: the devil is in the maths |
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| Authors: | Sunil Mitra Kumar |
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| Institution: | India Institute, King’s College London, London, UK |
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| Abstract: | 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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| Keywords: | Private schools India mathematical competencies propensity score matching |
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