The effect of school grants on test scores
Experimental evidence from Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9727909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mauricio Romero (0000-0003-4652-593X, ITAM, corresponding author), Juan Bedoya (0000-0002-9324-1916, Universidad de Cantabria), Monica Yanez‐Pagans (World Bank), Marcela Silveyra (World Bank), Rafael De Hoyos (ITAM and World Bank) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 363 |
| Pages | 980-995 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecca.12523 |
| OpenAlex | W4393992458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
We use a randomized experiment (across 200 public primary schools in Puebla, Mexico) to study the impact of providing schools with cash grants on student test scores. Treated schools received on average 16 USD per student each year for two years, an increase of 20% in public spending per child, after teacher salaries. Overall, the grants had no impact on student test scores. Lack of a treatment effect does not seem to be driven by poor implementation or a substitution away from other inputs (e.g. household expenditure)
Cash · Cash transfers · Demographic economics · Economics · Randomized experiment · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Test (biology) · Demography · Finance · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
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