I present the first value-added models of learning production in private and government
schools in India using unique panel data from Andhra Pradesh state. I examine the …

I use unique child-level panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, four developing
countries with widely differing levels of student achievement, to study the extent to which …

We study the entry of private secondary schools into 240 Indian villages previously served
by public schools only—comparing student outcomes in these villages with outcomes in …

In many low-and lower-middle-income countries, private schools are often considered to
offer better quality of education than government schools. Yet, there is a lack of evidence to …

This paper documents that children in rural Indonesia participate in a great variety of early
childhood education pathways. Three key factors predict early education pathways …

Low-cost private schools are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa and are often perceived
by parents to be of better quality than public schools. This article assesses the interplay …

Purpose The objective of this paper is to evaluate the learning gap between private and
public school children in primary school, and ascertain the part of the private–public school …

We examine the effect of private school attendance on literacy and numeracy skill
acquisition among children mainly drawn from lower primary grades in Kenya. The empirical …

Abstract Although Affirmative Action policies have been enforced in many countries, their
consequences are highly understudied, especially in the context of developing economies …

This paper studies the effects of India's main school-integration policy—a 25 percent quota
in private schools for disadvantaged students, whose fees are reimbursed by the state—on …