Evaluating the Impact of Public Student Subsidies on Low-Cost Private Schools in Pakistan

• Tác giả: Felipe Barrera-Osorio
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 379.3 Public policy issues in private education
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308138
• Chủ đề: 1. accountability; 2. education policy; 3. private schools; 4. public subsidies; 5. regession discontinuity design

Tóm tắt

This paper examines the impacts of accountability-based public per-student subsidies provided to low-cost private schools in Punjab, Pakistan on student enrolment and school inputs. Programme entry is contingent on achieving a minimum pass rate on a specially-designed academic test. We use regression discontinuity to estimate impacts on schools that joined the programme in the last entry round (phase 4) before follow-up survey data collection. We find large positive impacts on school enrolment, number of teachers, and other inputs for programme schools near the minimum pass rate.