Tahir Andrabi

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

By Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

Recent evidence on the impact of information provision on service delivery has been mixed, with overall outcomes even worsening in certain cases. We examine the market-wide impact of an intervention that provides school and child-level learning report cards in a randomly selected half of 112 educational markets (villages) in Pakistan. Read more »

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Learning and Educational Achievements in Punjab Schools

By Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Tara Vishwanath, Tahir Andrabi, Tristan Zajonc, and Jishnu Das

The Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS) Report provides an overview of the education sector based on the 2003 LEAPS Survey of schools, teachers, children, and households throughout rural Punjab,Pakistan.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning

By Tristan Zajonc, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Jishnu Das, and Tahir Andrabi

Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of educational programs. In non-experimental settings, estimated impacts of educational inputs can be highly sensitive to correctly specifying persistence when inputs are correlated with baseline achievement. While less of a concern in experimental settings, persistence still links short-run treatment effects to long-run impacts. Read more »