Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan

• Tác giả: Felipe Barrera-Osorio
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 372.95 Elementary education
• Thông tin xuất bản: MIT Press, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 322835
• Chủ đề: 1. GENDER DISPARITY; 2. PRIMARY EDUCATION; 3. PRIVATE SCHOOL; 4. PUBLIC SUBSIDY; 5. PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

Tóm tắt

We evaluate a program that recruited local entrepreneurs to open and operate new schools in 200 underserved villages in Sindh, Pakistan. School operators received a per-student subsidy to provide tuition-free primary education, and in half the villages received a higher subsidy for females. The program increased enrollment by 32 percentage points, and test scores by 0.63 standard deviations, with no difference across the two subsidy schemes. Estimating a structural model of the demand and supply for school inputs, we find that program schools selected inputs similar to those of a social planner who internalizes all the education benefits to society.