Do private schools increase academic achievement? Evidence from France

Leonard Moulin

Education Economics, 2023, vol. 31, issue 2, 247-274

Abstract: This article investigates the effect of private lower secondary schools on student achievement in France. I use propensity score matching on a large French database to estimate the effect of enrollment in a private school on academic achievement as measured by ninth-grade test scores in three school subjects. I find that private school attendance has a large and significant effect on educational success. Boys' (girls') scores in private school were between 0.193 (0.138) and 0.222 (0.198) standard deviations higher on standardized tests in ninth grade. A series of checks confirm the robustness of these results.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2022.2061428

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