Impact of Private Tutoring on Learning Levels: Evidence from India

Ambrish Dongrey , Vibhu Tewary
(2014)

Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects on learning outcomes. This paper bridges this gap by utilising a large household survey conducted in rural India, and employing Fixed Effect (FE) estimation to control for the effect of unobserved variables.