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

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Blakeslee, David S.; Hoover, Matthew; Linden, Leigh; Raju, Dhushyanth; Ryan, Stephen P.
• 署名单位: Vanderbilt University; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; Gallup, Inc.; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; IZA Institute Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research; The World Bank; Washington University (WUSTL); Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01002
• 发表日期: 2022-05
• 页码: 399-416
• 关键词: cost; enrollment; subsidies; QUALITY; schools; girls; urban; POOR

摘要

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 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.