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Parental Valuation of School Attributes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan
Authors: Pedro Carneiro, University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice; Jishnu Das World Bank; Hugo Reisy, University College London
Abstract: This paper studies the demand for school attributes in Pakistan, by estimating a standard model of demand for differentiated products to a dataset with information on school characteristics, school costs, household and child characteristics, and school choices. Parents have strong preferences for school attributes such as school facilities, the gender of the teacher, and most importantly, distance to one's residence. Parents do not appear to value the average test scores of either the students or the teachers in the school, perhaps because they are hard to observe. Our estimates imply that, on average, girls benefited more than boys from the increased trend in private schools.
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School Choice National Conference
Education 2025: Student First!
20 December 2013
Multi - Purpose Hall
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