Description du projet
Améliorer la politique d’intégration scolaire en Inde
L’Inde s’enorgueillit d’avoir le plus grand système scolaire du monde. Malheureusement, il connaît des disparités importantes. Pour résoudre ce problème, la loi de 2009 sur le droit à l’éducation impose aux écoles privées de réserver un quart de leurs places aux élèves issus de milieux économiques et de castes défavorisés. Le gouvernement rembourse ensuite les frais de scolarité de ces étudiants. Quel a été l’impact de cette politique? Le projet EDINCLUSION, financé par l’UE, entend apporter la réponse. Il évaluera l’impact de la politique d’intégration scolaire de l’Inde et identifiera les moyens d’améliorer cette politique. Plus précisément, il évaluera les effets sur les bénéficiaires actuels, identifiera des approches visant à encourager les candidatures des étudiants éligibles les plus pauvres et contribuera à une compréhension systématique des marchés des écoles privées.
Objectif
Social and economic stratification of schools can hurt both the equity and effectiveness of education systems. These concerns are exacerbated in settings where private schools account for a significant share of enrolment, as is the case in India - where nearly half the population attends a fee-charging private school. The EDINCLUSION project proposes an ambitious research agenda focused on understanding and improving school integration in India - which is the world’s largest school system, and also among the most unequal. The agenda focuses on studying and improving the impact of India’s landmark school integration policy, under the Right to Education Act 2009, which mandates that 25% of places in private schools should be reserved for students from disadvantaged economic and caste backgrounds (with the government reimbursing fees). This is likely the world’s largest-ever school integration initiative, affecting several times as many children as school desegregation initiatives in the US in the 1960s. Yet, despite its importance, there is remarkably little research on either the impact of this policy or on ways to improve its effectiveness.
The proposal features three work packages to address these gaps: (a) an assessment of effects on current beneficiaries, identified using the lottery-based allocation of seats in oversubscribed schools, (b) identifying approaches to encourage applications from poorer eligible students, evaluated through two multi-armed randomized control trials, and (c) a systematic understanding of private school markets using innovative survey design methods, panel data and exogenous policy-induced variation for identification. The results of this research program will generate ground-breaking evidence on (i) the effectiveness of this large school integration program (ii) identify scalable ways to improve its effectiveness and (iii) generate fundamental insights about the functioning of urban school markets in developing countries.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
SE11383 Stockholm
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