Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children
Do children with access to private tutoring feel happier than those without? In answering this question, this paper offers a novel way to understand the potential merit of providing private tutoring for children. Using a unique data set on Vietnamese children from Round 2 of the Young Lives 2006 Sur...
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| description | Do children with access to private tutoring feel happier than those without? In answering this question, this paper offers a novel way to understand the potential merit of providing private tutoring for children. Using a unique data set on Vietnamese children from Round 2 of the Young Lives 2006 Survey, this paper explores the link between taking extra classes and a child's subjective well-being, measured by degree of satisfaction regarding their current and future life. Estimation results from Ordinary Least-Square regressions indicate such a link to be positive and significant, which is further confirmed by Ordered Probit regressions aiming to control for the discontinuous nature of the dependent variable. To control for potential endogeneity of households' choice to purchase extra classes, the method of Propensity Score Matching is applied. Results from different versions of nearest-neighbour matching and Kernel matching indicate that children with private tutoring tend to feel happier about their current life, although the long-run effect of taking extra classes on a child's subjective well-being is more sensitive to the matching methods used. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d68e41f4-92b7-4906-ba44-cd6a70a0d8482022-03-27T08:34:16ZExtra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese childrenWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:d68e41f4-92b7-4906-ba44-cd6a70a0d848Learning facilitationEarly and Child learningEvaluation of social policies,programmes and practiceChildren and youthEducationStatistics (social sciences)EnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetYoung Lives2009Ko, IXing, JDo children with access to private tutoring feel happier than those without? In answering this question, this paper offers a novel way to understand the potential merit of providing private tutoring for children. Using a unique data set on Vietnamese children from Round 2 of the Young Lives 2006 Survey, this paper explores the link between taking extra classes and a child's subjective well-being, measured by degree of satisfaction regarding their current and future life. Estimation results from Ordinary Least-Square regressions indicate such a link to be positive and significant, which is further confirmed by Ordered Probit regressions aiming to control for the discontinuous nature of the dependent variable. To control for potential endogeneity of households' choice to purchase extra classes, the method of Propensity Score Matching is applied. Results from different versions of nearest-neighbour matching and Kernel matching indicate that children with private tutoring tend to feel happier about their current life, although the long-run effect of taking extra classes on a child's subjective well-being is more sensitive to the matching methods used. |
| spellingShingle | Learning facilitation Early and Child learning Evaluation of social policies,programmes and practice Children and youth Education Statistics (social sciences) Ko, I Xing, J Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children |
| title | Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children |
| title_full | Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children |
| title_fullStr | Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children |
| title_short | Extra classes and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Vietnamese children |
| title_sort | extra classes and subjective well being empirical evidence from vietnamese children |
| topic | Learning facilitation Early and Child learning Evaluation of social policies,programmes and practice Children and youth Education Statistics (social sciences) |
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