School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
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DOI：
10.1257/app.5.2.29
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Sundararaman, Venkatesh
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作者：
Das, Jishnu;Dercon, Stefan;Sundararaman, Venkatesh
对学校投入和考试成绩之间关系的实证研究通常不考虑家庭对学校投入变化的反应。来自印度和赞比亚的证据表明，当学校收到意想不到的助学金时，学生的考试成绩会更高，但预期的助学金没有影响。我们发现，造成这一结果的最有可能的机制是，家庭为了应对预期的拨款而抵消了自己的支出。我们的结果证实了最优家庭反应的重要性，并建议在将学校投入对学习结果的估计解释为教育生产函数的参数时要谨慎。(JEL D12、H52、I21、O15)
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student test scores are higher when schools receive unanticipated grants, but there is no impact of grants that are anticipated. We show that the most likely mechanism for this result is that households offset their own spending in response to anticipated grants. Our results confirm the importance of optimal household responses and suggest caution when interpreting estimates of school inputs on learning outcomes as parameters of an education production function. (JEL D12,H52, I21, O15)