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Every catholic child in a catholic school: historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries

Nineteenth-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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3818

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Thema
Private school competition
student achievement
Catholic schools
Privatschule
Katholizismus
Region
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Wettbewerb
Bildungsniveau
OECD-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
West, Martin R.
Wößmann, Ludger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2008

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081127450
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • West, Martin R.
  • Wößmann, Ludger
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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