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This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by...
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With an estimated 115 million children not attending primary school in the developing world, increasing access to education is critical. Resource constraints limit the effectiveness of demand-based subsidies. This paper focuses on the importance of a supply-side factor -- the availability of...
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Pakistan with household data, the authors use the availability of girls'schools in the mother's birth village as an instrument … for maternal schooling to address this issue. Since public schools in Pakistan are segregated by gender, the instrument …
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Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani public and private schools using dynamic panel methods that account for three key empirical challenges to widely used value-added models: imperfect...
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Pakistani religious schools, commonly known as madrassas. Given the importance placed on the subject by policymakers in Pakistan … landscape in Pakistan has changed substantially in the past decade, but this is due to an explosion of private schools, an …
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This paper looks at the private schooling sector in Pakistan, a country that is seriously behind schedule in achieving … Pakistan and show that an increasing segment of children enrolled in private schools are from rural areas and from middle …-class and poorer families. The key element in their rise is their low fees-the average fee of a rural private school in Pakistan …
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