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

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 in half the villages received a higher subsidy for females. The prog...

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Main Authors:	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Blakeslee, David S., Hoover, Matthew, Linden, Leigh, Raju, Dhushyanth, Ryan, Stephen P.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	MIT Press 2021
Subjects:	PRIMARY EDUCATION GENDER DISPARITY PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PRIVATE SCHOOL PUBLIC SUBSIDY MARKET COMPETITION RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35243

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spelling	okr-10986-352432021-04-23T14:02:19Z Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Blakeslee, David S. Hoover, Matthew Linden, Leigh Raju, Dhushyanth Ryan, Stephen P. PRIMARY EDUCATION GENDER DISPARITY PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PRIVATE SCHOOL PUBLIC SUBSIDY MARKET COMPETITION RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL 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 in 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. 2021-03-10T21:44:28Z 2021-03-10T21:44:28Z 2020-12-20 Journal Article The Review of Economics and Statistics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35243 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank MIT Press Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article South Asia Pakistan
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description	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 in 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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author	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Blakeslee, David S. Hoover, Matthew Linden, Leigh Raju, Dhushyanth Ryan, Stephen P.
author_facet	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Blakeslee, David S. Hoover, Matthew Linden, Leigh Raju, Dhushyanth Ryan, Stephen P.
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title	Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
title_short	Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
title_full	Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
title_fullStr	Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
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Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan

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