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  1. "Every catholic child in a catholic school"
    historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries
    Published: June 2008
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    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... more

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    DS 63 (2332)
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    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. -- Private school competition ; student achievement ; Catholic schools

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    hdl: 10419/26377
    RVK Categories: DD 4700
    DDC Categories: 370
    Series: Array ; 2332
    Subjects: Privatschule; Katholizismus; Region; Allgemeinbildende Schule; Wettbewerb; Bildungsniveau; OECD-Staaten; PISA <Test>
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 25 S. = 200 KB, Text
  2. "Every catholic child in a catholic school"
    historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    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... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    DS 4 (3818)
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    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. -- Private school competition ; student achievement ; Catholic schools

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    hdl: 10419/35419
    Series: IZA discussion papers ; 3818
    Subjects: Privatschule; Katholizismus; Region; Allgemeinbildende Schule; Wettbewerb; Bildungsniveau; OECD-Staaten; PISA <Test>
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 25 S.), graph. Darst.