Impacts of public spending, private spending and school governance on schooling outcomes in rural India
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2012-12
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National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, IN
Abstract
This paper studies the idea (hypothesis) that increasing government spending on
education should improve the quality of the education and access and thus bridge
the gap between the private schools and public schools’ performance leading to
indifferent choice between the school types and similar outcome. Nationally
representative village, schools, and household level data from rural India allow us
to study the impact of the spending on the school choice and measure performance
gap (if there is any) between the types of schools and their impact on the welfare of
the society as a whole. We find that even after the big government spending on
education to improve the quality and access, the gap between the public private
school’s performance still exits and that lead to the difference in the welfare
(outcome) as a whole.
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Keywords
SCHOOLS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, DECENTRALIZATION, PRIVATE EDUCATION, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, PUBLIC EDUCATION, PUBLIC SERVICES, SOCIAL EQUITY, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNANCE