TUTORING EFFICACY, HOUSEHOLD SUBSTITUTION, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM AN AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM IN RURAL CHINA

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Behrman, Jere R.; Fan, C. Simon; Guo, Naijia; Wei, Xiangdong; Zhang, Hongliang; Zhang, Junsen
• 署名单位: Zhejiang University; University of Pennsylvania; Lingnan University; University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12668
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 149-189
• 关键词: education experimental-evidence; Randomized evaluation; TECHNOLOGY; demand; inputs; determinants; incentives; teachers; impacts; college

摘要

After-school tutoring has risen globally despite limited evidence of effectiveness. We implement a randomized after-school tutoring program in rural China where many children are left-behind by parents in care of grandparents. Compared to tutees cared for by parents, those in care of grandparents reported much smaller home-tutoring reductions but larger test-score gains. We interpret our data analysis with a model with tutoring efficacy and substitution between private and public inputs both differing by family background: Increased public tutoring generates larger test-score gains for children who experience greater tutoring efficacy and lesser substitution with household inputs, consistent with our estimates.