Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …