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Publication Date: 2025-Jul
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Helping Schools Survive: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial and Educational Support to Private Schools. Working Paper 34042
Tahir Andrabi; Jishnu Das; Asim Ijaz Khwaja; Selcuk Ozyurt
National Bureau of Economic Research
Low-cost private schools have increased educational access in low-income countries, but frequent school closures lead to costly disruptions in children's schooling. We provide experimental evidence from Pakistan that both school loans and educational products and services (EPS) are (a) commercially viable products and (b) substantially and similarly improve school survival rates. Moreover, loans decrease closure rates more for schools with larger initial enrollments and lower baseline test scores, while EPS show no such differential impact. These results demonstrate how financial and educational input constraints can significantly affect school survival while underscoring that the fungibility of entrepreneurial support matters. [This paper was also funded by Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), Australian Aid, and Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Family Foundation.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Low Income, School Closing, Institutional Survival, Private School Aid, Educational Finance, Educational Resources, Instructional Materials
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Language: English
Sponsor: World Bank; John Templeton Foundation; UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (United Kingdom), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); UK Aid
Authoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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