TY - JOUR
T1 - DELIVERING EDUCATION TO THE UNDERSERVED THROUGH A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN
AU - Barrera-Osorio, Felipe
AU - Blakeslee, David S.
AU - Hoover, Matthew
AU - Linden, Leigh
AU - Raju, Dhushyanth
AU - Ryan, Stephen P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is dedicated to the respectful memory of the late Anita Ghu-lam Ali, former managing director of the Sindh Education Foundation. The Government of Sindh’s Education Sector Reform Program, which includes the intervention evaluated in this study, received financial and technical assistance from the World Bank and the European Commission. We thank the following people and organizations: the Government of Sindh’s Planning and Development, Finance, and Education and Literacy Departments; the Sindh Education Sector Reform Program Support Unit; and SEF for partnering with the evaluation team, in particular with M. Abdullah Abbasi, Naheed Abbasi, Ambreena Ahmed, the late Anita Ghulam Ali, Imam Bux Arisar, Sadaf Bhojani, Mukhtiar Chandio, Sana Haidry, Abdul Fateh Jhokio, Aziz Kabani, Tauseef Latif, Adnan Mobin, Dilshad Pirzado, Shukri Rehman, Shahpara Rizvi, Rustam Samejo, Noman Siddique, and Sadaf Junaid Zuberi. Second, we thank the following World Bank and European Commission staff for their support of the design, implementation, and evaluation of the intervention: Umbreen Arif, Salman Asim, Siddique Bhatti, Reema Nayar, Quynh Nguyen, Peter Portier, Uzma Sadaf, Benjamin Safran, and Sofia Shakil. Third, we thank Mariam Adil and Aarij Bashir for their field-based support. We benefited from comments from Richard Murnane, Emmerich Davies, and seminar participants at Harvard University, the World Bank, RISE Conference, NBER Education, and IZA Labor Conference. The study received financial support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the World Bank. The experimental project has IRB approval number AAAF4126, Columbia University and registration at the American Economic Association RCT registry repository, number AEARCTR-0002407.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/5/9
Y1 - 2022/5/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1162/rest_a_01002
DO - 10.1162/rest_a_01002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131595613
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 104
SP - 399
EP - 416
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 3
ER -