Barrera-Osorio, FelipeRaju, Dhushyanth2012-03-192012-03-192011-04-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3402This study estimates the causal effects of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at low-cost private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment and schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately conditional on achieving a minimum stipulated student pass rate (cutoff) in a standardized academic test. This mechanism for treatment assignment allows the application of regression-discontinuity (RD) methods to estimate program impacts at the cutoff. Data on two rounds of entry test takers (phase 3 and phase 4) are used. Modeling the entry process of phase-4 test takers as a sharp RD design, the authors find evidence of large positive impacts on the number of students, teachers, classrooms, and blackboards. Modeling the entry process of phase-3 test takers as a partially-fuzzy RD design given treatment crossovers, they do not find evidence of significant program impacts on outcomes of interest. The latter finding is likely due to weak identification arising from a small jump in the probability of treatment at the cutoff.CC BY 3.0 IGOACADEMIC YEARACCESS TO SCHOOLINGADULT LITERACYADULT LITERACY RATEANNUAL FEESASSIGNMENT MECHANISMAVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTBASIC EDUCATIONBLACKBOARDSBOARD OF DIRECTORSCALLCHILD EDUCATIONCLASSROOMCLASSROOM RATIOCLASSROOM SPACECLASSROOMSCOMPARATIVE EDUCATIONCURRICULUMEDUCATION GOALSEDUCATION OUTCOMESEDUCATION POLICYEDUCATION SECTOREDUCATION STATISTICSEDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTSEDUCATIONAL INPUTSEDUCATIONAL INVESTMENTSELEMENTSENROLLMENT FIGURESENROLLMENT GROWTHENROLLMENT INCREASESEQUITABLE ACCESSEXPENDITURESFEE STRUCTURESFEMALE EDUCATIONFEMALE STUDENTSGIRLSGLOBAL EDUCATIONHEAD STARTHIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATIONHUMAN DEVELOPMENTINTERVENTIONSLEARNINGLEARNING ENVIRONMENTLETLEVELS OF EDUCATIONLITERACYLITERACY RATESLITERATURELIVING STANDARDSMATHEMATICSMIDDLE SCHOOLSNATIONAL EDUCATIONNUMBER OF SCHOOLSNUMBER OF STUDENTSNUMBER OF TEACHERSOPEN ACCESSPAPERSPARTICIPATION RATESPARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATIONPASS RATEPHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTUREPRIVATE EDUCATIONPRIVATE EDUCATION SECTORPRIVATE PARTNERSHIPSPRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLSPRIVATE SCHOOLPRIVATE SCHOOLINGPRIVATE SCHOOLSPUBLIC SCHOOLPUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMPUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERPUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERSPUBLIC SCHOOLSPUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLSQUALITY ASSURANCEQUALITY EDUCATIONQUALITY OF EDUCATIONREGISTERED SCHOOLSRURAL AREASSCHOOL ADMINISTRATORSSCHOOL CENSUSSCHOOL EDUCATIONSCHOOL ENROLLMENTSCHOOL ENTRYSCHOOL FEESSCHOOL LEVELSCHOOL MANAGEMENTSCHOOL PARTICIPATIONSCHOOL RECORDSSCHOOL SIZESCHOOL SYSTEMSCHOOL TEACHERSCHOOL TEACHERSSCHOOL TYPESSCHOOLINGSECONDARY SCHOOLINGSECONDARY SCHOOLSSOCIAL DEVELOPMENTSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSTUDENT ENROLLMENTSTUDENT SUBSIDIESSTUDENT SUBSIDYSTUDENT-TEACHER RATIOSUBJECT AREASSUBJECTSTEACHERTEACHER ABSENTEEISMTEACHER COMPETENCYTEACHER CREDENTIALSTEACHER PERFORMANCETEACHER SALARIESTEACHER TRAININGTEACHERSTEACHINGTEACHING TOOLSTEST ADMINISTRATIONTEST SCORESTUTORINGUNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATIONURBAN SCHOOLSVOUCHERSWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-5638