Title
The effect of a charter school in Peru (Fe y Alegría) on school achievement: Exploiting a school lottery selection as a natural experiment
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Stellenbosch University
Abstract
This study estimates the effect of one charter school (a public-private partnership) on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade students in Peru between 2007 and 2012. The study uses an identification strategy to estimate the causal effect of a charter school. The strategy is based on a natural experiment of an admission lottery to determine which students would be accepted into second grade at the charter school. The results show that the charter school achieved substantial gains in the scores of the lottery winners that are equivalent to 0.4 standard deviations. We also find that this effect has increased over time.
Start page
95
End page
110
Volume
43
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Econometría
Economía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85078844088
Source
Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics
ISSN of the container
03796205
Sponsor(s)
In memoriam Jesús Herrero SJ. This study was possible thanks to the support of the Inter-American Development Bank. The authors are grateful for the generous cooperation of Fe y Alegría Perú, and in particular its Director Javier Quiróz. We also thank the Educational Quality Measurement Unit at the Ministry of Education and its Director, Liliana Miranda, in particular. We also are grateful for the valuable comments by Julián Cristia, an anonymous IDB reviewer, two anonymous reviewers and from the participants at the Peru´s Economists Association Conference. César Salinas, Ana Paula Franco, and Jesús Gutiérrez gave us valuable support in the statistical analysis, while Varinia Arévalo assisted in data gathering. *2.Universidad del Pacífico, Jr. Sánchez Cerro 2050, Lima 11, Peru 3 Group for the Analysis of Development Email: p.lavadopadilla@up.edu.pe
This study was possible thanks to the support of the Inter-American Development Bank. The authors are grateful for the generous cooperation of Fe y Alegría Perú, and in particular its Director Javier Quiróz. We also thank the Educational Quality Measurement Unit at the Ministry of Education and its Director, Liliana Miranda, in particular. We also are grateful for the valuable comments by Julián Cristia, an anonymous IDB reviewer, two anonymous reviewers and from the participants at the Peru´s Economists Association Conference. César Salinas, Ana Paula Franco, and Jesús Gutiérrez gave us valuable support in the statistical analysis, while Varinia Arévalo assisted in data gathering.
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