Delivering Education to the Underserved Through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, David S. Blakeslee, Matthew Hoover, Leigh Linden, Dhushyanth Raju, Stephen P. Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Blakeslee, David S.

Hoover, Matthew.

Linden, Leigh.

Raju, Dhushyanth.

Ryan, Stephen P.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23870.

NBER working paper series no. w23870

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.

Summary:

We contribute to the school-competition literature by evaluating a program that randomly assigned private schools to underserved villages in Pakistan. Program schools were provided a per-student subsidy to provide tuition-free primary education, with half of the treated villages receiving a higher subsidy for female students. The program increased enrollment by 30 percentage points, and test scores by 0.63 standard deviations. The effects were similar across genders, and across the two subsidy treatments. Program schools were of higher quality than nearby government schools, and a structural model for the supply and demand of school inputs indicates that program schools selected inputs similar to those of a social planner who internalizes all the educational benefits to society.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2017.