DELIVERING EDUCATION TO THE UNDERSERVED THROUGH A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN

Felipe Barrera-Osorio; David S. Blakeslee; Matthew Hoover; Leigh Linden; Dhushyanth Raju; Stephen P. Ryan

doi:10.1162/rest_a_01002

DELIVERING EDUCATION TO THE UNDERSERVED THROUGH A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, David S. Blakeslee, Matthew Hoover, Leigh Linden, Dhushyanth Raju, Stephen P. Ryan

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	399-416
Number of pages	18
Journal	Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume	104
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01002
State	Published - May 9 2022

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