Data and Code for: Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tahir Andrabi, Pomona; Natalie Bau, UCLA; Jishnu Das, Georgetown; Asim Khwaja, Harvard University

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Project Description

Summary:

We estimate and validate test score-based measures of school quality (School Value-Added or SVA) in Pakistan. We document substantial variation in SVA within villages and within the public and private sectors, leading to a wide range of possible estimates of the private premium. We also show that parents value SVA. Heterogeneity in parental demand for quality helps explain both the evolution of the market over time and cross-market variation in school quality. The supply-side responds to parental demand for quality in the private sector, but there is no evidence it does so in the public sector.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: school value-added; heterogeneity in school quality; educational markets; private premium; school choice; learning in low-income countries; vouchers

JEL Classification:
      H44 Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I25 Education and Economic Development
      I28 Education: Government Policy
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Geographic Coverage: Rural Pakistan

Universe: Schools, households, and students in 112 randomly chosen villages with at least one private school in three districts of Punjab, Pakistan.

Data Type(s): survey data

Collection Notes: Continually updated public (anonymized) versions of the data are available at https://www.leaps.hks.harvard.edu/data/leaps-longitudinal

Methodology

Data Source: Survey data collected by PIs from students, households, schools, and teachers in rural Pakistan between 2003-2007 and in 2011-12. Includes cognitive and civic test scores on exams designed and administered by the research team.

Unit(s) of Observation: students, households, schools

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