Borrowing Constraints and Demand for Remedial Education: Evidence from Tanzania

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Burchardi, Konrad; de Quidt, Jonathan; Gulesci, Selim; Sulaiman, Munshi
• 署名单位: Stockholm University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Trinity College Dublin; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueae024
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 2621-2637
• 关键词: subsidies; returns; TRIAL; POOR; cost

摘要

We use a cash transfer to relax households' borrowing constraints, then elicit their willingness to pay for a remedial education programme offering tutoring and life skills training. Lottery losers were willing to pay 3,300 Tanzanian Shillings for the programme, which is 7% of per capita monthly expenditures. For those identified at baseline as able to borrow, willingness to pay increases by 3% upon winning a lottery prize of 3,200 Tanzanian Shillings. For those unable to borrow, willingness to pay increases by 27% upon winning the lottery. We conclude that borrowing constraints limit access to educational programmes, and may increase inequality of educational attainment.