The Effect of School Type on Academic Achievement
利用印尼数据，评估学校类型对初中生学业成绩的影响，发现公立学校学生成绩显著高于私立学校学生，穆斯林私立学校学生成绩与世俗私立学校无显著差异。
Abstract Using Indonesian data, this paper evaluates the impact of school type on the academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7–9). Public school graduates, after controlling for a wide variety of characteristics, score 0.17 to 0.3 standard deviations higher on the national exit exam than their privately schooled peers. This finding is robust to OLS, fixedeffects, and instrumental variable estimation strategies. Students attending Muslim private schools, including Madrassahs, fare no worse on average than students attending secular private schools. Our results provide indirect evidence that higher-quality inputs at public junior secondary schools promote higher test scores.