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Contracting Out Schools at Scale: Evidence from Pakistan

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  • Lee Crawfurd

    (Center for Global Development)

  • Abdullah Alam

    (Institute for Social and Policy Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan)

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Can governments contract out school management at scale? In 2016 the Government of Punjab transferred management of over 4,000 failing primary schools to private operators. Schools remained free to students. Private operators received a government subsidy per enrolled student of less than half per-student spending in government schools. This paper evaluates the effects on performance of converted schools. Comparing early converters to later converters, we estimate that enrolment in treated schools increased by over 60 percent, and test scores declined sharply.

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  • Lee Crawfurd & Abdullah Alam, 2022. "Contracting Out Schools at Scale: Evidence from Pakistan," Working Papers 622, Center for Global Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:cgd:wpaper:622
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    Keywords

    Charter schools; difference-in-difference; Pakistan; PPPs; public-private partnerships;
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    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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