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The Impact of Private Tutoring on Higher Education Outcomes: Evidence from South Korea

In: Workplace Productivity and Management Practices

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  • Tiloka de Silva

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With many countries having reached universal primary and secondary education, parents are increasingly investing in private tutoring as a means of ensuring that their children attend the best schools and universities. However, unlike the returns to years of schooling and effects of school quality on student achievement, the effects of spending on private tutoring have received limited attention. This chapter studies the impact of tutoring on higher educational outcomes using exogenous variation in tutoring expenditure caused by the imposition of a curfew on the operating hours of tutoring institutes in Korea. The estimated effects of the curfew highlight the severity of the college entrance rat race, with a 10 p.m. curfew constraining tutoring expenditure and increasing sleeping hours. I find diminishing marginal effects of tutoring on college entrance and positive effects on degree completion while the impact on college major followed varies across disciplines.

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  • Tiloka de Silva, 2021. "The Impact of Private Tutoring on Higher Education Outcomes: Evidence from South Korea," Research in Labor Economics, in: Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, volume 49, pages 239-276, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-912120210000049009
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-912120210000049009
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    Keywords

    Private tutoring; college entrance; education rat race; human capital accumulation; government regulation of tutoring; college outcomes; J24; I23; I26;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education

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