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Report Cards : The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets / Andrabi, Tahir
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Andrabi, Tahir
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education for All.
- Educational Markets.
- Effective Schools & Teachers.
- Information Provision.
- Market-Level Experiments.
- Primary Education.
- Private Schools.
- Private Sector Development.
- Secondary Education.
- Tertiary Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Education for All.
- Educational Markets.
- Effective Schools & Teachers.
- Information Provision.
- Market-Level Experiments.
- Primary Education.
- Private Schools.
- Private Sector Development.
- Secondary Education.
- Tertiary Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (64 pages)
- Other Title:
- Report Cards
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2015
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11 standard deviations, decreased private school fees by 17 percent, and increased primary enrollment by 4.5 percent. Heterogeneity in the treatment impact by initial school quality is consistent with canonical models of asymmetric information. Information provision facilitates better comparisons across providers, improves market efficiency and raises child welfare through higher test scores, higher enrollment, and lower fees.
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