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

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe ; Raju, Dhushyanth

Taylor and Francis

关键词: education policy;    accountability;    regession discontinuity design;    public subsidies;    private schools;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00220388.2015.1028535

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

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.