The Effect of Private Management of Public Schools on Student Achievement in Bogotá, Colombia

• López Sánchez, Ángela Rocío ^[1] ; Virgüez Clavijo, Andrés Felipe ^[1] ; Sarmiento Espinel, Jaime Andrés ^[1] ; Silva Arias, Adriana Carolina ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

     Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

     Colombia

     
• Localización: Ecos de Economía, ISSN-e 1657-4206, Vol. 19, Nº. 41, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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  • During the last 15 years, the public school system in Bogotá, Colombia has maintained a concession system in which 25 schools are managed privately with exemptions to many of the rules required in the traditional schools.  This study uses the propensity-matching technique to examine whether students in the privately-managed schools have better scores on the Saber 11° examinations taken upon completion of secondary school.  The results for 251 schools indicates that students with comparable socioeconomic characteristics score considerably better on these tests in the privately-managed schools than in the traditional public schools.  Thus, there is evidence that the privately-managed public schools are a cost-effective alternative to the traditional public school.