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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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2332
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
Cultural Economics: Religion
- Subject
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Private school competition
student achievement
Catholic schools
Privatschule
Katholizismus
Region
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Wettbewerb
Bildungsniveau
OECD-Staaten
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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West, Martin R.
Woessmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- West, Martin R.
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2008
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