The effect of school grants on test scores: experimental evidence from Mexico
基于墨西哥200所公立小学的随机实验，发现学校获得现金拨款（每生每年约16美元）对考试成绩无显著影响，且非实施问题或家庭支出替代所致。
Abstract We use a randomized experiment (across 200 public primary schools in Puebla, Mexico) to study the impact of providing schools with cash grants on student test scores. Treated schools received on average 16 USD per student each year for two years, an increase of 20% in public spending per child, after teacher salaries. Overall, the grants had no impact on student test scores. Lack of a treatment effect does not seem to be driven by poor implementation or a substitution away from other inputs (e.g. household expenditure).