McEwan, Patrick J. 2002. Public subsidies for private schooling: A comparative analysis of Argentina and Chile. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 4(2), 189-216.
- Uses 1997 data to compare effectiveness of public schools, non religious private schools, and Catholic Schools (189-190)
- Argentina Institutional framework
- government has provided subsidies for the payment of private school teachers since the 1940s, but these were codified in 1958 (190)
- the law says that private schools that charge tuition can get up to an 80% subsidy for teacher pay, free private schools can get 100% (190-191)
- wage subsidies can also based on SES of students (191)
- but this gives a lot of leeway of local authorities, which can result in pure clientelism
- in 1998 21% of primary school students went to private schools (nationally)
- of these 63% are in Catholic school
- in 1998 in private schools:
- 45% of students went to schools with teachers 100% subsidized
- another 28% went to schools with partial subsidies
- leaves 27% with no subsidies
- chile (191-193)
- the hard part in this analysis is the fact that SES and shool type tend to correlate (195)
- in general, without controlling for SES, there are big differences between pub and priv schools (199)
- private schools are more likely ot be in rich neighborhoods (204)
- private school students are less likely to repeat a grade (207)
- results are fairly consistent that Catholic subsidized schools have better outcomes in both arg and chile (208)
- but many of the other results seem to suggest that the differences in schools are based on SES (208)
- hypotheses for explanations: (209-211)
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