ERIC Number: EJ1398249
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0964-5292
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5782
Contracting out Schools at Scale: Evidence from Pakistan
Crawfurd, Lee; Alam, Abdullah
Education Economics, v31 n5 p555-571 2023
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.
Descriptors: School Administration, Outsourcing, Contracts, Elementary Schools, Private Sector, Enrollment, Academic Achievement, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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