Evaluating the Impact of Public Student Subsidies on Low-Cost Private Schools in Pakistan

This paper examines the impacts of accountability-based public per-student subsidies provided to low-cost private schools in Punjab, Pakistan on student enrolment and school inputs. Programme entry is contingent on achieving a minimum pass rate on a specially-designed academic test. We use regressio...

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Published inThe Journal of development studies Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 808 - 825
Main Authors Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Raju, Dhushyanth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.07.2015
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
accountability
education policy
Educational enrolment
Enrollments
Impact analysis
India
Pakistan
Private schools
public subsidies
Punjab
regession discontinuity design
Regression analysis
Schools
Students
Subsidies
Survey data
Teachers
Pakistan
Punjab Pakistan
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Summary:This paper examines the impacts of accountability-based public per-student subsidies provided to low-cost private schools in Punjab, Pakistan on student enrolment and school inputs. Programme entry is contingent on achieving a minimum pass rate on a specially-designed academic test. We use regression discontinuity to estimate impacts on schools that joined the programme in the last entry round (phase 4) before follow-up survey data collection. We find large positive impacts on school enrolment, number of teachers, and other inputs for programme schools near the minimum pass rate.
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ISSN:0022-0388
1743-9140
DOI:10.1080/00220388.2015.1028535