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The Effect of Private Management of Public Schools on Student Achievement in Bogotá, Colombia

Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics

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Title The Effect of Private Management of Public Schools on Student Achievement in Bogotá, Colombia
 
Creator López Sánchez, Ángela Rocío
Virgüez Clavijo, Andrés Felipe
Sarmiento Espinel, Jaime Andrés
Silva Arias, Adriana Carolina
 
Subject Concession schools; secondary education; education achievement; propensity score
 
Description During the last 15 years, the public school system in Bogotá, Colombia has maintained a concession system in which 25 schools are managed privately with exemptions to many of the rules required in the traditional schools.  This study uses the propensity score matching technique to examine whether students in the privately-managed schools have better scores on the Saber 11° examinations taken upon completion of secondary school.  The results for 251 schools indicates that students with comparable socioeconomic characteristics score considerably better on these tests in the privately-managed schools than in the traditional public schools.  Thus, there is evidence that the privately-managed public schools are a cost-effective alternative to the traditional public school.  
 
Publisher Universidad EAFIT
 
Date 2015-12-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3348
10.17230/ecos.2015.41.5
 
Source Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 19 No 41 (2015)
Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 19 No 41 (2015)
2462-8107
1657-4206
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3348/2838
http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3348/2943
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Ángela Rocío López Sánchez, Andrés Felipe Virgüez Clavijo, Jaime Andrés Sarmiento Espinel, Adriana Carolina Silva Arias