Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
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提高赌注：向私立学校无条件拨款的均衡效应
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2018
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Niharika Singh
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T. Andrabi;Jishnu Das;A. Khwaja;Selcuk Ozyurt;Niharika Singh
我们评估融资是否可以帮助私立学校，私立学校目前占低收入和中等收入国家小学入学人数的三分之一。我们的实验向村庄中的一所（L）或所有（H）私立学校分配无条件现金赠款。在这两个武器，招生和收入增加，导致高于市场的回报。然而，只有H类学校的考试成绩有所提高，伴随而来的是更高的学费和对教师的更多关注。我们提供了一个模型，表明市场力量可以提供内生激励，以提高质量和增加的金融饱和度可以用来利用竞争，产生社会理想的结果。(JEL I21、I22、I25、I28、L22、L26、N75、O15、O16）
We assess whether financing can help private schools, which now account for one-third of primary school enrollment in low- and middle-income countries. Our experiment allocated unconditional cash grants to either one (L) or all (H) private schools in a village. In both arms, enrollment and revenues increased, leading to above-market returns. However, test scores increased only in H schools, accompanied by higher fees, and a greater focus on teachers. We provide a model demonstrating that market forces can provide endogenous incentives to increase quality and increased financial saturation can be used to leverage competition, generating socially desirable outcomes. (JEL I21, I22, I25, I28, L22, L26, N75, O15, O16)