Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools
This paper investigates the effects of primary school choices on cognitive and non-cognitive development in children using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). We militate against the measurement problems that are associated with individual unobserved heterogeneity by expl...
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| author | Nghiem, H. Nguyen, Ha Khanam, R. Connelly, L. |
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| description | This paper investigates the effects of primary school choices on cognitive and non-cognitive development in children using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). We militate against the measurement problems that are associated with individual unobserved heterogeneity by exploiting the richness of LSAC data and applying contemporary econometric approaches. We find that sending children to Catholic or other independent primary schools has no significant effect on their cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. The literature now has evidence from three different continents that the returns to attending Catholic primary schools are no different than public schools. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-322492018-03-05T01:06:49Z Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools Nghiem, H. Nguyen, Ha Khanam, R. Connelly, L. Skills Panel School choice Cognitive Australia Non-cognitive This paper investigates the effects of primary school choices on cognitive and non-cognitive development in children using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). We militate against the measurement problems that are associated with individual unobserved heterogeneity by exploiting the richness of LSAC data and applying contemporary econometric approaches. We find that sending children to Catholic or other independent primary schools has no significant effect on their cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. The literature now has evidence from three different continents that the returns to attending Catholic primary schools are no different than public schools. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32249 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.02.009 Elsevier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Skills Panel School choice Cognitive Australia Non-cognitive Nghiem, H. Nguyen, Ha Khanam, R. Connelly, L. Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools |
| title | Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools |
| title_full | Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools |
| title_fullStr | Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools |
| title_short | Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools |
| title_sort | does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? evidence from australian primary schools |
| topic | Skills Panel School choice Cognitive Australia Non-cognitive |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32249 |