Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets

By T. Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja. 2014

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This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11 standard deviations, decreased private school fees by 17 percent, and increased primary enrollment by 4.5 percent. Heterogeneity in the treatment impact by initial school quality is consistent with canonical models of asymmetric information. Information provision facilitates better comparisons across providers, improves market efficiency and raises child welfare through higher test scores, higher enrollment, and lower fees.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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1. Johannes Wohlfart
2. Christopher Roth
3. Richard J. Murnane
4. A. Ganimian
5. Eric A. Hanushek

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1. Ingar K. Haaland
2. Johannes Wohlfart
3. Christopher Roth
4. Richard J. Murnane
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2. Johannes Wohlfart
3. Christopher Roth
4. Richard J. Murnane
5. A. Ganimian

Citations in the corpus

• Improving Education in Developing Countries (2016, background): “Andrabi, Das, and Khwaja (2009) provided parents (and schools) in Punjab, Pakistan, in 2004 with a report card that displayed the test scores of their own children and the average scores of students in all schools in each village.”
• Parents’ Beliefs about Their Children’s Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments (2019, unknown): “, Jensen (2010)), or statistics that require another entity's private information, such as school-average student performance or normally-unreleased data on student e ort in school (Andrabi et al., 2016; Bergman, 2016).”
• Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, background): “(Bleemer and Zafar, 2018; Conlon, 2019; Wiswall and Zafar, 2014) as well as school choice (Andrabi et al., 2017). Researchers have shown that information about school quality affects parental investment decisions (Greaves et al., 2019) and that parents’ beliefs about children’s ability affect their ”
• Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “Andrabi et al. (2009) evaluated an initiative in Punjab, Pakistan that provided the parents of third graders attending public and private schools with school- and child-level learning “report cards.”