Impact of private secondary schooling on cognitive skills: evidence from IndiaFootnote^†

† The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected]. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. All the errors remain of the authors.

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