Education Reform and Behavioral Response : Evidence from South Korea
We study an education reform resulting in delayed ability tracking for South Korean students during the 1960s-70s. The reform ended a practice of sorting students into elite and non-elite middle schools via admission exams, postponing ability tracking until the high school level. A discontinuity in the probability of students’ facing admission exams based on a birth-date cutoff enabled us to identify the causal effect of the reform on short- and long-run outcomes. We find that the reform increased both the incidence of private tutoring as well as hourly wages amongst students from wealthy households. A causal mediation analysis shows that private tutoring is an important pathway for the effect of the reform on university graduation and hourly wage. Our findings suggest that education reforms can interact with household behavior to yield unintended policy outcomes, especially in developing countries with well-established private tutoring markets
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2023
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Authors: | Hwang, ``Sam'' Il Myoung ; Ahn, Sejin ; Bayraktar, Oguz |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Südkorea | South Korea | Bildungsreform | Education reform | Schule | School |
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