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dc.contributor.authorWest, Martin R.en
dc.contributor.authorWößmann, Ludgeren
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-27-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:51:38Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:51:38Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20081127450en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35419-
dc.description.abstractNineteenth-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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3818en
dc.subject.jelI20en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPrivate school competitionen
dc.subject.keywordstudent achievementen
dc.subject.keywordCatholic schoolsen
dc.subject.stwPrivatschuleen
dc.subject.stwKatholizismusen
dc.subject.stwRegionen
dc.subject.stwAllgemeinbildende Schuleen
dc.subject.stwWettbewerben
dc.subject.stwBildungsniveauen
dc.subject.stwOECD-Staatenen
dc.titleEvery catholic child in a catholic school: historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn585907277en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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