School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student test scores are higher when schools receive unanticipated grants, but there is no impact of...

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Main Authors:	Das, Jishnu, Dercon, Stefan, Habyarimana, James, Krishnan, Pramila, Muralidharan, Karthik, Sundararaman, Venkatesh
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	American Economic Association 2014
Subjects:	consumer economics empirical analysis national government expenditures education expenditures analysis of education human resources human development income distribution migration economic development
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17921

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spelling	okr-10986-179212021-04-23T14:03:41Z School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores Das, Jishnu Dercon, Stefan Habyarimana, James Krishnan, Pramila Muralidharan, Karthik Sundararaman, Venkatesh consumer economics empirical analysis national government expenditures education expenditures analysis of education human resources human development income distribution migration economic development Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student test scores are higher when schools receive unanticipated grants, but there is no impact of grants that are anticipated. We show that the most likely mechanism for this result is that households offset their own spending in response to anticipated grants. Our results confirm the importance of optimal household responses and suggest caution when interpreting estimates of school inputs on learning outcomes as parameters of an education production function. 2014-04-21T16:13:12Z 2014-04-21T16:13:12Z 2013-04 Journal Article American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1945-7782 10.1257/app.5.2.29 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17921 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo American Economic Association American Economic Association India Zambia
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description	Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student test scores are higher when schools receive unanticipated grants, but there is no impact of grants that are anticipated. We show that the most likely mechanism for this result is that households offset their own spending in response to anticipated grants. Our results confirm the importance of optimal household responses and suggest caution when interpreting estimates of school inputs on learning outcomes as parameters of an education production function.
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author	Das, Jishnu Dercon, Stefan Habyarimana, James Krishnan, Pramila Muralidharan, Karthik Sundararaman, Venkatesh
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title	School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
title_short	School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
title_full	School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
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title_full_unstemmed	School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
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School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

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