Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260475 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Research Group on Human Capital - Working Paper Series No. 21-01
Publisher: 
Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Groupe de recherche sur le capital humain (GRCH), Montréal
Abstract: 
Canada is recognized as one of the top 10 countries in secondary education according to PISA results. A particularly intriguing case in this country is the large system of highly subsidized independent schools in the province of Québec where students also perform extremely well in PISA testing. This paper uses the year Canadian 2000 PISA cohort of 15-year-olds to estimate the ATT effect of independent schooling on educational attainment. We find large, positive, robust, and statistically significant effects of independent schooling on attainment. The robustness of the results to omitted variable bias is addressed through a sensitivity analysis for matching estimators.
Subjects: 
YITS
high school graduation
postsecondary education and professional programsenrollment and graduation
longitudinal data
treatment effect
entropy balancing
JEL: 
I20
I21
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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