The Impact of Private Schools, School Chains and PPPs in Developing Countries

IF 8.7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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The private school sector has expanded with almost no public intervention to educate half of primary school children in many urban centers in Africa and Asia. Simple comparisons of test scores would suggest that these private schools may provide better quality than public schools, but how much of this difference is due to selection effects is unclear. Much donor and policymaker attention has proceeded on the basis that private schools do perform better, and focused on models of public subsidy to expand access, and investment in networks or chains to encourage expansion. We review the evidence of the effects of private schools on learning, and how that effect translates to public-private partnerships (PPPs). We also study the effects of private school chains. We conduct a systematic review for eligible studies, with transparent search criteria. The search resulted in over 100 studies on low-cost private schools and PPPs, with a large majority being on low-cost private schools. Our meta-analysis shows moderately strong effects from private schooling, although the limited number of experimental studies find much smaller effects than quasi-experimental studies. This advantage, though, is not nearly enough to help most children reach important learning goals. Turning to policy goals, we find that the private school advantage has not translated to public private partnerships, which have shown limited value in improving quality. They can however represent a lower-cost means of increasing access to school. We also find that private school chains perform little better than individual private schools and have little scope for achieving meaningful scale.
发展中国家私立学校、连锁学校和公私伙伴关系的影响
在非洲和亚洲的许多城市中心,私立学校部门在几乎没有公共干预的情况下扩大,教育了一半的小学生。简单地比较一下考试成绩就会发现,这些私立学校可能比公立学校提供更好的质量,但这种差异在多大程度上是由于选择效应,目前还不清楚。捐助者和政策制定者的大部分注意力都集中在私立学校确实表现更好的基础上,并集中在公共补贴模式上,以扩大入学机会,并投资于网络或连锁店,以鼓励扩张。我们回顾了私立学校对学习影响的证据,以及这种影响如何转化为公私合作伙伴关系(ppp)。我们还研究了私立连锁学校的影响。我们以透明的检索标准对符合条件的研究进行系统评价。这项研究得出了100多项关于低成本私立学校和公私伙伴关系的研究,其中绝大多数是关于低成本私立学校的。我们的荟萃分析显示私立学校的影响中等,尽管有限数量的实验研究发现的影响比准实验研究要小得多。然而,这种优势还不足以帮助大多数孩子达到重要的学习目标。在政策目标方面,我们发现私立学校的优势并没有转化为公私伙伴关系,这在提高质量方面显示出有限的价值。然而,它们可以是增加上学机会的一种低成本手段。我们还发现,私立连锁学校的表现并不比个体私立学校好多少,而且几乎没有实现有意义规模的空间。
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期刊介绍: The World Bank Journals, including the Research Observer, boast the largest circulation among economics titles. The Research Observer is distributed freely to over 9,100 subscribers in non-OECD countries. Geared towards informing nonspecialist readers about research within and outside the Bank, it covers areas of economics relevant for development policy. Intended for policymakers, project officers, journalists, and educators, its surveys and overviews require only minimal background in economic analysis. Articles are not sent to referees but are assessed and approved by the Editorial Board, including distinguished economists from outside the Bank. The Observer has around 1,500 subscribers in OECD countries and nearly 10,000 subscribers in developing countries.
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