Evaluating the impact of Mexico's quality schools program : the pitfalls of using nonexperimental data / Emmanuel Skoufias, Joseph Shapiro
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- 3912043
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- Skoufias, Emmanuel
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- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Poverty Sector Unit, 2006
- 47 p. ; 28 cm.
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- Policy research working papers ; 4036.
- Impact evaluation series ; no. 8.
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The authors evaluate whether increasing school resources and decentralizing management decisions at the school level improves learning in a developing country. Mexico's Quality Schools Program (PEC), following many other countries and U.S. states, offers US$15,000 grants for public schools to implement five-year improvement plans that the school's staff and community design. Using a three-year panel of 74,700 schools, the authors estimate the impact of the PEC on dropout, repetition, and failure using two common nonexperimental methods-regression analysis and propensity score matching. The methods provide similar but nonidentical results. The preferred estimator, difference-in-differences with matching, reveals that participation in the PEC decreases dropout by 0.24 percentage points, failure by 0.24 percentage points, and repetition by 0.31 percentage points-an economically small but statistically significant impact. The PEC lacks measurable impact on outcomes in indigenous schools. The results suggest that a combination of increased resources and local management can produce small improvements in school outcomes, though perhaps not in the most troubled school systems.
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- "October 2006"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-31).
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