Evaluating the Impact of Public Student Subsidies on Low-Cost Private Schools in Pakistan
利用断点回归设计，评估巴基斯坦旁遮普省基于问责制的公共生均补贴对低成本私立学校入学率和学校投入的影响，发现补贴显著提升了学校入学率、教师数量和其他投入。
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.