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TY - JOUR
T1 - School choice and student wellbeing
AU - Green, Colin
AU - Navarro Paniagua, Maria
AU - Ximénez-de-Embún, Domingo P.
AU - Mancebon, Maria
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - The debate over private versus public provision of schooling remains contentious. A large literature has developed focusing on the relative educational performance of different school types. Beyond these important outcomes, variations in schooling may have direct effects on students’ contemporaneous welfare. For instance, private schools may generate better performance by requiring greater effort from students and exerting more pressure upon them. This paper uses data from three Spanish regions to examine how private schooling affects one domain of student wellbeing, satisfaction with education. While naïve estimates suggest a positive effect of private schooling on student satisfaction. These effects disappear, and even turn negative, after introducing controls for school quality and/or taking into account selection on unobservables. This suggests that while private schools may generate better educational outcomes, they do not necessarily maximize, and may even reduce, adolescents’ contemporaneous welfare.
AB - The debate over private versus public provision of schooling remains contentious. A large literature has developed focusing on the relative educational performance of different school types. Beyond these important outcomes, variations in schooling may have direct effects on students’ contemporaneous welfare. For instance, private schools may generate better performance by requiring greater effort from students and exerting more pressure upon them. This paper uses data from three Spanish regions to examine how private schooling affects one domain of student wellbeing, satisfaction with education. While naïve estimates suggest a positive effect of private schooling on student satisfaction. These effects disappear, and even turn negative, after introducing controls for school quality and/or taking into account selection on unobservables. This suggests that while private schools may generate better educational outcomes, they do not necessarily maximize, and may even reduce, adolescents’ contemporaneous welfare.
KW - School choice
KW - Student satisfaction
KW - Instrumental variables
U2 - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.11.007
DO - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.11.007
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 139
EP - 150
JO - Economics of Education Review
JF - Economics of Education Review
SN - 0272-7757
ER -