This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Monday, January 22nd, 2018. I'm Caleb Brown.

In theory, private schooling should improve student achievement by increasing competitive pressures on educators to provide high-quality educational experiences.

So what does the evidence tell us?

Cori DeAngelis is author of the new Cato paper

The Public Benefit of Private Schooling

out today at Cato.org.

What do we know about what private schooling actually

contributes to public welfare?

We know that private schooling from the 21 experimental evaluations around the world has

small, modest positive impacts on student test scores.

But when you start looking into the other types of outcomes that promote general welfare, such as tolerance of other individuals

criminal activity those impacts are actually much bigger okay so what

what did your study look at so for my study we looked at,

or I looked at the changes in private share of schooling

within countries over time.

I actually looked at 52 different countries

from 2000 to 2012 and found that when countries

experienced a higher level of private share of total schooling enrollment

that PISA scores went up on math and reading.

Even after controlling for gross domestic product,

student body enrollment, life expectancy within countries,

and various other country level controls.

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