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THE WORLD BANK
EDT 33
Discussion Paper
EDUCATION AND TRAINING SERIES
Report No. EDT33
Public vs. Private Schoolsin Developing Countries:
Evidencefrom Colombia and tTanzania
George Psacharopoulos
July 1986
Edt cation and Training Department Operations Policy Staff
The views presented here are those of the author(s), and they should not be interpreted as reflecting those of the World Bank.
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Discussion Paper
Education and Training Series
Report No. EDT33
PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES:EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA AND TANZANIA
George Psacharopoulos
Research DivisionEducation and Training Department
July 1986
The World Bank does not accept responsibility for the views expressedherein, which are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed tothe World Bank or to its affiliated organizations. The findings,interpretations, and conclusions are the results of research or analysissupported by the Bank; they do not necessarily represent official policy ofthe Bank.
Copyright © 1986 The International Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment/The World Bank
Abstract
The paper presents evidence on differences between public and privateschools in Colombia and Tanzania on a number of indicators like cognitiveachievement, unit cost and labor market outcomes. The findings are mixed,in the sense that in both countries, statistically control:Ling for studentability and socioeconomic background, private school students outperformtheir public school counterparts on academic achievement, whereas thereverse is true regarding achievement on specialized subject matter. Onepossible explanation of this finding is that parental press3ure (socialdemand) on private schools makes them tacitly emphasize academic subjectswhich are viewed by their customers as leading to a higher level ofopportunities after graduation.
PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SCHDOLS IN DEVELOPING COWNTRIES:
EVIDENCE RO14 COLOMBIA AND TANZANIA *
Since publication of the more recent "Coleman retport," the
literature on comparisons between public and private schocils has mushroomed
in the United States. 1/ The issue in that country is mainly cast in terms
of "tuition tax credit", i.e., a tax rebate to families that send their
children to private schools. The controversy in the literature has
centered around two points: first, methodological, i.e., how to test for
differences in outcomes imparted upon the student by the t:wo types of
schools; second, value judgements, i.e., how to weigh any positive versus
negative effects of public and private schools. Two lines of thought have
developed on the issue: those who believe that greater reliance on private
schools would introduce competition and choice into the system, and thus a
higher level of efficiency; and those who argue that privatization of the
school system would lead to greater social and economic st:ratification in
society.
Very little has been published on private schools in developing
countries, let alone on comparisons between public and priLvate schools
(see James 1985, Tan 1985). The issue is important because, in spite of
the fact that the tax system in these countries is not as developed for a
tuition credit scheme to be considered or enacted, the encouragement of
private schooling may (a) provide incentives towards a better utilization
* I am indebted to Tarsicio Castaneda and Emmanuel Jimenez for theircomments on an earlier draft of this paper.
1/ For a summary of the "Coleman report" see Coleman (1981). For areview of a number of related issues see James and Levrin (1983).
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of social resources allocated to schools, and (b) relax the limited public
financial capacity to support an educational system. Inadequacy of the
public purse to support the expansion of education, and inefficiency in the
use of resources are the two most salient problems plaguing the educational
system of most developing countries today. However, any positive
efficiency effects of private schools would have to be assessed against the
potential loss of equity.
This paper attempts a contribution on this issue by providing
some evidence on differential student outcomes between private and public
schools in two developing countries: Colombia and Tanzania. In what
follows I first give a description of the samples on which the evidence is
based in the two countries, present the empirical results and discuss their
implications.
I. Colombia
Colombia has a well developed secondary school system with nearly
one half of the relevant school age group children enrolled at this level
(Unesco, 1984). Of those enrolled in secondary schools, one half
attend private institutions (James 1985, Table 1). The sample on which
this study is based was raised in 1981 in connection with the "DiSCuS"study
(Psacharopoulos and Loxley, 1985). This was an evaluation of the
diversified public secondary schools called INEM (Institutos Nacionales de
Educacion Media) judged against a control group of other (conventional)
public schools and private schools at the same level of education. 2/
2/ Diversified schools teach academic and pre-vocational subjectsunder one roof, whereas non-IMEM schools (private or public) focusmainly on one subject, like academic studies, industrial arts orcommerce.
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Table 1 presents the structure of the sample used in the
following analysis by school type and subject. In all, a little over
6,000 students were randomly polled in 95 schools of the three types. The
reason two types of schools are distinguished within the public sector is
that the INEM correspond to an educational innovation that was supported
by the World Bank and such schools were built and equipped on different
standards relative to the other public schools. Therefore, any quality
differences between schools might be attributed to such different
standards rather than the fact that INEM schools belong to the public
sector.
Table 1
The Number of Students (and Schools) in the Sample: Colombia
Subject ------Public ------ Private TotalINEM Other
Academic 871 (*) 779 (18) 692 (18) 2,342
Commercial 957 (*) 614 (12) 359 (14) 1,930
Industrial 869 (*) 669 (11) 276 (6) 1,814
Total 2,697 (16) 2,062 (41) 1,327 (38) 6,086 (95)
* INEM schools offer all three subjects.
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Information was raised from several sources. A school
questionnaire was used to document the level of facilities of each
individual school in the sample. A student questionnaire documented the
background characteristics of each student, along with financial
information on school-related expenditures. A specially designed test was
administered to each student to assess his or her level of cognitive
knowledge in the area of curriculum specialization. Information from the
ICFES test (administered by the national examination board for entry into
higher education) was merged with the student file in order to obtain the
student's verbal and mathematical aptitude before graduation from secondary
school. Finally, each student was traced one year after leaving secondary
school and administered a questionnaire to obtain information on activities
since graduation and current status.
Table 2 gives summary statistics on differences between the three
types of schools on a number of indicators. Thus INEM schools have an
advantage over the rest in terms of the teacher-student ratio and teachers'
qualifications. However, they have a higher operating cost, relative to
other public schools and nearly double the cost of private schools,
presumably because of the higher standard that they were designed to
meet.3/ Regarding the student characteristics, there is a sharp difference
between the socioeconomic background (family income and parental education)
of those who attend private school on the one hand, and those in
3/ The private unit cost (item 3 in Table 2) was assumed to be equal tothe fees paid by the students given the fact that private schools inColombia do not receive state subsidies.
Table 2
Mean Sample Characteristics by School Type: Colombia
Characteristic ----Public---- PrivateINEM Other
School
1. Student-teacher ratio 27 30 322. Teachers' qualifications (in years) 15.9 13.5 14.03. Operating cost per student (pesos per year) 15,620 13,380 8,344
Student
4. School fees (pesos per year) 576 886 8,3445. Other School-related exp. (pesos per year) 3,694 4,901 4,3306. Family income (pesos per month) 22,928 27,106 40,3197. Father's education (in years) 6.0 6.5 7.8
Graduate
8. Attended training course (percent) 24.5 27.9 26.09. Looking for work (percent) 33.1 31.1 27.610. Monthly earnings (in pesos) 9,732 9,723 9,546
Direct Unit Costs and Financing
11. Social cost (3+5) 19,314 18,281 12,67412. Private cost (4+5) 4,270 5,787 12,674
Share of Private Contribution to:
13. Social cost (percent) 22.1 31.7 100.014. Monthly family income (percent) 1.6 1.8 2.6
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the public school system--in schools of either the INEM or the conventional
type. Regarding external outcomes, private school graduates appear to be
better off in terms of finding employment after graduation from secondary
school, although there is virtually no difference on the earnings received
by the graduates of the three types of school.
Table 3 summarizes the results of the achievement tests by school
type and subject. INEM schools outperform all others on the specialization
test. But there are some interesting differences in the level of aptitude
by those who are drawn into the INEM academic program, and the rest. It
appears that within the INEM system, the most able students follow the
academic stream, whereas the rest are streamed into the commercial and
industrial pre-vocational subjects. Non-INEM and private vocational
schools draw higher ability students relative to their INEM counterparts.
Explaining Achievement Differences
School quality is a multifaceted concept. Stripped to its
essentials, it can be measured by either input or output. 4/ We already
noted some differences on the input side between public and private
schools. There are also differences on the cognitive achievement, output
side (see Table 3). But to what extent are the latter statistically
significant when other factors, like the student's ability and
socioeconomic background that positively correlate with achievement, are
controlled for?
4/ For a discussion of alternative definitions of school quality, seeFuller 1985.
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Table 3
Cognitive Achievement and Aptitude Scores by Curriculum Subject: Colombia
Curriculum Test -----Public----- PrivateSubject Score INEM Other
Academic Academic Achievement 54.3 50.0 50.1(17.7) (20.1) (21.5)
Verbal Aptitude 52.6 50.6 51.1Math Aptitude 51.8 51.2 50.8
Commercial Commercial Achievement 59.6 58.2 54.4(19.8) (20.3) (19.6)
Verbal Aptitude 49.7 53,4 51.9Math Aptitude 49.5 53.,8 52.1
Industrial Industrial Achievement 55.6 52.6 46.6(18.5) (20.0) (21.3)
Verbal Aptitude 49.3 52.7 53.2Math Aptitude 52.0 55.4 57.5
Note: Numbers in parenthesis are coefficients of variation.
Table 4 presents regression results of cognitive achievement as a
dependent variable on school and student characteristics. The functions are
fitted within groups of students following the particular subject. "Private
school" and "INEM school" are dummy variables having a value of I if the
student attends the respective school, and 0 otherwise. Hence the control
group against which the school-type effect is evaluated, is the non-INEM
public schools. Sex is a dummy variable having a value of 1 if the student
is male and 0 otherwise. Father's education (measured in years) is used as
a proxy for socioeconomic background.
Regression (1) brings out the clear positive effect of attending
an INEM school relative to a conventional public school. Attending a
private school does not have a significant effect on academic achievement.
In regression (2) the function is fitted within the non-INEM and private
schools sub-sample as to provide a stricter comparison between ordinary
(i.e., non-innovative) schools in the public and private sector. The
results show that there is no difference in academic achievement between
the two sectors.
Regression (3) brings in two additional controls for student
background: his or her score on the verbal and math aptitude tests. (Note
that sample size is reduced relative to regression (1) because not all high
school seniors aspired to entry into higher education and hence the test
score is not available for those who did not). Given this limitation,
within the subgroup of university aspirants, the positive effect of INEM is
maintained. However, attending a private school is associated with a
statistically significant two points gain on the standardized academic
achievement test. Another point worth noting in this regression is that
the introduction of the ability measures diminishes the effect of socio-
economic background (father's education in this case) to about one third
its size relative to the previous regressions (1) and (2). Regression (4)
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Table 4
Within Subject Achievement Functions: Colombia
Test Score: -------------Academic-------------- Colmercial IndustrialIndependentVariable (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Constant 47.256 46.908 21.722 20.818 44.842 30.604
Private School -.221 -.314 2.025* 1.974* -5.043* -7.659*(.42) (.59) (3.61) (3.60) (5.95) (8.02)
INEM School 4.036* -- 4.823* --
(8.08) (9.09)
Sex (Male = 1) 1.516* 1.354* .759 1.000 -2.191* 3.38(3.59) (2.54) (1.79) (1.83) (2.11) (.93)
Father's Education .302* .361* .122* .124 .261* .120(5.81) (5.62) (2.34) (1.89) (2.25) (.90)
Verbal Aptitude -- -- .393* .449* .219* .264*(16.14) (14.43) (4.43) (4.76)
Math Aptitude -- -- .112* .071* .020 .085(4.81) (2.31) (.40) (1.64)
R2 0.060 .025 .261 .274 .102 .129
N 2,217 1,401 1,720 966 689 711
Notes: Functions are fitted within sub-samples of students specializing in academic,commercial or industrial studies.The dependent variable is the test score on the student's own specialization.Numbers in parenthesis are t-ratios.
"--"means variable not included in the regression.
* indicates statistical significance at the 5 percent probability level or better.
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repeats this last functional specification within the group of non-INEM
students showing that the advantage of private over public schools on the
academic test is maintained. Also, the effect of socioeconomic background
on achievement disappears (at the 5 per cent level of significance). A
comparison between regressions (1) and (2) on the socioeconomic variable
shows how its inclusion without proxies for ability may sometimes lead to
the spurious result that achievement is determined by social class rather
than other student or school characteristics. (For a discussion on this
topic, see Heyneman and Loxley, 1983).
Finally, regressions (5) and (6) repeat the last functional
specification within the commercial and technical sub-groups of students.
In both cases, public schools outperform private schools in vocational
achievement. The probable reasons for such mixed performance of private
versus public schools is discussed in the last section.
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II. Tanzania
In sharp contrast to Colombia, Tanzania has a very constrained
secondary school system: only 3 percent of the relevant age group is
enrolled at the secondary level (Unesco, 1984). Yet about one third of the
country's secondary school students attend private schools (Tanzania
Government, 1980). The sample on which this study was based covered over
4,000 students attending Form IV in 39 public and 18 private secondary
schools in 1981.
Table 5
The Number of Students and (Schools) in the Sample: Tanzania
Subject Public Private Total
Academic 713 (8) 311 (5) 1,024 (13)
Commercial 747 (13) 538 (6) 1,285 (19)
Technical 405 (4) 87 (3) 492 (7)
Agricultural 1,157 (14) 223 (4) 1,380 (18)
Total 3,022 (39) 1,159 (18) 4,181 (57)
Unlike Colombia, all secondary schools in Tanzania had to
diversify in the early seventies and declare a curriculum "bias" in which
they would specialize. However, implementation problems resulted to the
continued teaching of traditional subjects in many schools.
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These are denoted as "academic" or "control" schools in our sample. (For
the history of and a discussion on the diversification policy in Tanzania
see Psacharopoulos and Loxley, 1985).
As in the case of Colombia, information was raised by means of a
student, school and follow-up questionnaire, the latter administered one
year after graduation from high school. Specially designed tests measured
the student's verbal and mathematical aptitude, as well as his or her
cognitive achievement score on the subject-matter of each curriculum bias.
Table 6 gives a summary of differences between public and private
schools on a number of selected indicators. Thus public schools score
significantly higher (relative to private schools) on three conventional
measures of educational quality, namely, they employ more teachers per
student, their teachers are better qualified, and they spend more per
student. Unlike Colombia, there is not much socioeconomic differentiation
between students attending the two types of schools. For example, father's
income of those in private schools is only 13 percent higher relative to
those in public schools. Regarding external outcomes, private school
graduates appear (weakly) to be better off in terms of the incidence of
unemployment after graduation and the size of earnings among those
employed.
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Table 6
Mean Sample Characteristics by School Type: Tanizania
Characteristic Public Private
School
1. Student-teacher ratio 18 282. Teachers' qualifications (in years) 16.2 13.63. Operating cost per student (sh. per year) 3,549 1,957
Student
4. School fees 83 1,9925. Other School-related expenses (sh./year) 349 4996. Father's income (sh. per month) 5,137 5,7907. Father's education (in years) 5.6 6.8
Graduate
8. In furhter education or training 53.4 17.79. Looking for work (percent) 6.6 5.910. Monthly earnings (shillings) 696 708
Direct Unit Costs and Financing
11. Social cost (3+5) 3,539 2,45612. Private cost (4+5) 432 2,491
Share of Private Contribution to:
13. Social cost (percent) 13.5 101.414. Monthly father's income (percent) .7 3.6
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Table 7 gives the mean achievement scores in the various
subjects, along with the mean aptitude scores by curriculum track. Without
exception, students in public schools score higher on aptitude and cognitive
achievement, and in some instances by a wide margin.
So, are public schools "better" than private schools? Not
necessarily so. In the first place it was observed above that private
schools spend significantly less per student relative to public schools.
Hence, their inferior score on cognitive achievement may be due to the fewer
inputs that enter their "educational production function". Second, the
figures in Table 7 are averages, i.e., uncontrolled for other
characteristics in which students attending the two types of schools
differ. Table 8 presents achievement functions fitted, as in the case of
Colombia, within subgroups of students. Controlling for family background,
sex and aptitude, private schools appear to do significantly better on
academic subjects (English and Mathematics) relative to public schools.
However, private schools do worse in specialized subject matter (commercial,
technical and agriculture test).
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Table 7
Cognitive Achievement and Aptitude Scores by Curriculum Subject: Tanzania
Subject Test Score Public Private
Academic English 52.3 50.9(16.9) (25.3)
Mathematics 51.3 50.4(19.4) (20.0)
Verbal Aptitude 51.7 48.3Math Aptitude 51.3 47.0
Commercial Commercial Achievement 54.9 51.9(20.5) (18.1)
Verbal Aptitude 49.8 45.2Math Aptitude 50.0 44.1
Technical Technical Achievement 59.1 48.6(19.9) (17.7)
Verbal Aptitude 53.2 45.6Math Aptitude 56.2 44.8
Agricultural Agricultural Achievement 53.9 46.0(19.8) (17.6)
Verbal Aptitude 52.4 42.8Math Aptitude 51.9 44.9
Note: Numbers in parenthesis are coefficients of variation.
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Table 8
Within Subject Achievement Functions: Tanzania
Independent Test Score: - - - Academic - - -Variable English Mathematics Commercial Technical Agriculture
Constant 18.050 14.960 37.26 30.459 35.870
Private School 1.056 1/ 1.455 * -1.165 * -4.658 * -5.304 *(1.89) (2.55) (2.25) (3.65) (6.86)
Sex (Male=l) -.591 4.849 * -.607 -.577 -1.965 *(1.06) (8.49) (1.22) (.32) (3.07)
Father's Education .140 2/ .039 .164 * -.008 .236 *(1.74) (.470) (2.08) (.06) (2.81)
Father is Farmer .250 -.545 .459 .900 .876(.48) (1.03) (.85) (1.01) (1.60)
Verbal Aptitude .350 * .179 * .121 * .110 .227 *(12.44) (6.22) (4.14) (1.87) (7.48)
Math Aptitude .304 * .470 * .215 * .407 * .114 *(10.15) (15.33) (7.43) (7.53) (3.77)
R2 .348 .432 .123 .271 .150
N 1,024 1,024 1,285 489 1,380
Notes: Functions are fitted within sub-samples of students specializing in academic,commercial, technical or agricultural studies.The dependent variable is the test score on the student's own specialization.Numbers in parenthesis are t-ratios.
* Indicates statistical significance at the 5 percent probability level or better.
1, Statistically significant at the 5.6 percent probability level.
2/ Statistically significant at the 8.2 percent probability level.
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III. Discussion
The results of the foregoing analysis are mixed regarding the
performance of private versus public secondary schools. 5/ But one common
feature emerged in both countries: Private schools do better on academic
subjects, although the reverse applies for specialized/vocational
subjects. In Colombia, public sector INEM schools belong to a separate
class of their own. To put it in a nutshell, the standards according to
which they were built and equipped makes them better schools, at least in
terms of raising cognitive achievement in all subjects. 6 Second,
concentrating on non-INEM schools--which may provide a fairer assessment of
the public versus private sector issue--academic private schools do better
than their public counterparts. But the reverse is true regarding schools
specializing in commercial and industrial studies. One possible
explanation of the results, is selectivity bias in the sauLple, i.e., those
who attend the two types of school differ systematically in some other
characteristic that is not captured by socioeconomic background and the
aptitude tests that were used as control in the achievement functions.
In Tanzania, the inferior performance of private! schools on
specialized tests may be due to the fact that although such schools had to
declare a bias, this was not as well implemented as it was in public
schools of the same bias because of financial constraints.,
5/ It should be noted that there exists substantial differentiation inachievement within the public and private sectors, as judged by thecoefficients of variation reported in Tables 3 and 7, above.
6/ However, INEM schools scored lower than other types oiE school inColombia on a set of external evaluation criteria like the absorbtionof graduates by the labor market or further training. (SeePsacharopoulos, Velez and Zabalza, 1986).
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The common finding in the two countries that private schools are
better in boosting academic achievement whereas the reverse is true
regarding specialized/vocational subject matter could be explained by
another hypothesis: Private schools attempt to satisfy the demand of their
customers which is stronger for academic relative to vocational subjects.
The reason for such demand preference is that students and their parents
view academic subjects as leading to more opportunities after graduation,
like entering university of following a non-manual career. Hence, through
the power of the fees they pay, pressure is exercised on private schools to
tacitly emphasize the academic subject matter. It is a common observation
that the social demand for education in all types of countries is for
general rather than vocational education. Hence, when an element of choice
is involved, as in the case of private schools, the customers eventually
obtain what they want. 7/
Taking the results at face value, it is clear that any policy
decision regarding the encouragement of one type of school over another
must hinge on some additional criterion to the relative ability of public
or private schools to raise student achievement. Two such possible
criteria are, first, the beyond school, external outcomes imparted upon the
graduates and, second, the relative cost or financial considerations in
7/ This hypothesis could be tested by introducing a private versus publicschool distinction in assessing the demand for education. For anexample of such study, although without a type of school variable, seePsacharopoulos (1982).
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general. The external outcome criterion was already used to discriminate
between INEM and non-INEM schools in the DiSCuS study, and tipped the scale
in favor of the non-INEM schools in Colombia and academic schools in
Tanzania (Psacharopoulos and Loxley, 1985).
Turning to financial issues, Table 2 shows that in Colombia the
operating cost of private schools is on average 42 percent lower 20 than
that of INEM and conventional public schools. Therefore, although private
schools spend substantially less per student, they have been effective in
raising academic achievement relative to public schools. In Tanzania also
the operating cost of private schools is significantly lower than that in
public schools. But private schools have been more efficient in
transforming limited resources to learning outcomes.
The differential cost/achievement relationship between private
and public schools could be explained by the fact that academic schools are
inherently cheaper to run because it is relatively easy to obtain teachers
in language and mathematics. By contrast, vocational schooLs are more
expensive to run because of the need to hire specialized teachers and
purchase technical equipment. As a result, only schools relying on the
public purse may be able to be fully equipped to teach vocat:ional subjects,
the private schools tacitly restricting themselves to excellence in
academic subjects.
Of course a more dramatic difference emerges on the financing
aspect of the costs. Students in private schools in both countries fully
contribute to the social cost of their education, whereas students in
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public schools contribute only a fraction (line 13 in Tables 2 and 6). To
the extent that the possibility of public financing of the expansion of
secondary schooling is an issue, encouragement of private schools may
relieve the state of a budgetary constraint. Alternatively, if the state
subsidy now channelled indiscriminately to public school students (by means
of free attendance) were targeted to the most able and low family income-
students, the overall efficiency of the system would improve, as well as
its equity.
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