Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan
This study estimates the causal effects of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at low-cost private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment and schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately conditional on achieving a minimum stipulated s...
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okr-10986-34022021-04-23T14:02:09Z Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth ACADEMIC YEAR ACCESS TO SCHOOLING ADULT LITERACY ADULT LITERACY RATE ANNUAL FEES ASSIGNMENT MECHANISM AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION BLACKBOARDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CALL CHILD EDUCATION CLASSROOM CLASSROOM RATIO CLASSROOM SPACE CLASSROOMS COMPARATIVE EDUCATION CURRICULUM EDUCATION GOALS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENTS ELEMENTS ENROLLMENT FIGURES ENROLLMENT GROWTH ENROLLMENT INCREASES EQUITABLE ACCESS EXPENDITURES FEE STRUCTURES FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE STUDENTS GIRLS GLOBAL EDUCATION HEAD START HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LET LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATES LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MATHEMATICS MIDDLE SCHOOLS NATIONAL EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARTICIPATION RATES PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION PASS RATE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATE EDUCATION PRIVATE EDUCATION SECTOR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLING PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION REGISTERED SCHOOLS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENTRY SCHOOL FEES SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL RECORDS SCHOOL SIZE SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL TEACHER SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOL TYPES SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ENROLLMENT STUDENT SUBSIDIES STUDENT SUBSIDY STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO SUBJECT AREAS SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER COMPETENCY TEACHER CREDENTIALS TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER SALARIES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING TOOLS TEST ADMINISTRATION TEST SCORES TUTORING UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN SCHOOLS VOUCHERS This study estimates the causal effects of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at low-cost private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment and schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately conditional on achieving a minimum stipulated student pass rate (cutoff) in a standardized academic test. This mechanism for treatment assignment allows the application of regression-discontinuity (RD) methods to estimate program impacts at the cutoff. Data on two rounds of entry test takers (phase 3 and phase 4) are used. Modeling the entry process of phase-4 test takers as a sharp RD design, the authors find evidence of large positive impacts on the number of students, teachers, classrooms, and blackboards. Modeling the entry process of phase-3 test takers as a partially-fuzzy RD design given treatment crossovers, they do not find evidence of significant program impacts on outcomes of interest. The latter finding is likely due to weak identification arising from a small jump in the probability of treatment at the cutoff. 2012-03-19T18:01:50Z 2012-03-19T18:01:50Z 2011-04-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110425102033 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3402 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5638 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia South Asia South Asia Asia Pakistan |
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ACADEMIC YEAR ACCESS TO SCHOOLING ADULT LITERACY ADULT LITERACY RATE ANNUAL FEES ASSIGNMENT MECHANISM AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION BLACKBOARDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CALL CHILD EDUCATION CLASSROOM CLASSROOM RATIO CLASSROOM SPACE CLASSROOMS COMPARATIVE EDUCATION CURRICULUM EDUCATION GOALS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENTS ELEMENTS ENROLLMENT FIGURES ENROLLMENT GROWTH ENROLLMENT INCREASES EQUITABLE ACCESS EXPENDITURES FEE STRUCTURES FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE STUDENTS GIRLS GLOBAL EDUCATION HEAD START HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LET LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATES LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MATHEMATICS MIDDLE SCHOOLS NATIONAL EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARTICIPATION RATES PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION PASS RATE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATE EDUCATION PRIVATE EDUCATION SECTOR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLING PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION REGISTERED SCHOOLS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENTRY SCHOOL FEES SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL RECORDS SCHOOL SIZE SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL TEACHER SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOL TYPES SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ENROLLMENT STUDENT SUBSIDIES STUDENT SUBSIDY STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO SUBJECT AREAS SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER COMPETENCY TEACHER CREDENTIALS TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER SALARIES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING TOOLS TEST ADMINISTRATION TEST SCORES TUTORING UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN SCHOOLS VOUCHERS |
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ACADEMIC YEAR ACCESS TO SCHOOLING ADULT LITERACY ADULT LITERACY RATE ANNUAL FEES ASSIGNMENT MECHANISM AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION BLACKBOARDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CALL CHILD EDUCATION CLASSROOM CLASSROOM RATIO CLASSROOM SPACE CLASSROOMS COMPARATIVE EDUCATION CURRICULUM EDUCATION GOALS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS EDUCATIONAL INPUTS EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENTS ELEMENTS ENROLLMENT FIGURES ENROLLMENT GROWTH ENROLLMENT INCREASES EQUITABLE ACCESS EXPENDITURES FEE STRUCTURES FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE STUDENTS GIRLS GLOBAL EDUCATION HEAD START HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LET LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATES LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MATHEMATICS MIDDLE SCHOOLS NATIONAL EDUCATION NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARTICIPATION RATES PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION PASS RATE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATE EDUCATION PRIVATE EDUCATION SECTOR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOLING PRIVATE SCHOOLS PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION REGISTERED SCHOOLS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL ENTRY SCHOOL FEES SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL RECORDS SCHOOL SIZE SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL TEACHER SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOL TYPES SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ENROLLMENT STUDENT SUBSIDIES STUDENT SUBSIDY STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO SUBJECT AREAS SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHER COMPETENCY TEACHER CREDENTIALS TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER SALARIES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING TOOLS TEST ADMINISTRATION TEST SCORES TUTORING UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN SCHOOLS VOUCHERS Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan |
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South Asia South Asia South Asia Asia Pakistan |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5638 |
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This study estimates the causal effects
of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at low-cost
private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment and
schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately conditional on
achieving a minimum stipulated student pass rate (cutoff) in
a standardized academic test. This mechanism for treatment
assignment allows the application of
regression-discontinuity (RD) methods to estimate program
impacts at the cutoff. Data on two rounds of entry test
takers (phase 3 and phase 4) are used. Modeling the entry
process of phase-4 test takers as a sharp RD design, the
authors find evidence of large positive impacts on the
number of students, teachers, classrooms, and blackboards.
Modeling the entry process of phase-3 test takers as a
partially-fuzzy RD design given treatment crossovers, they
do not find evidence of significant program impacts on
outcomes of interest. The latter finding is likely due to
weak identification arising from a small jump in the
probability of treatment at the cutoff. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth |
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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth |
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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe |
| title |
Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_short |
Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_full |
Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan |
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Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Evaluating Public Per-Student Subsidies to Low-Cost Private Schools : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan |
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evaluating public per-student subsidies to low-cost private schools : regression-discontinuity evidence from pakistan |
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2012 |
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