Transforming public schools: Impact of the CRI program on child learning in Pakistan

B-Tier
Journal: Economics of Education Review
Year: 2010
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 669-683

Authors (3)

Naseer, Muhammad Farooq (not in RePEc) Patnam, Manasa (Centre de Recherche en Économi...) Raza, Reehana R. (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper evaluates the impact of teaching innovations, introduced in public primary schools under the Children Resources International (CRI) Program, on student outcomes. We estimate students' learning based on their scores on standardized tests. We match schools and children within the treatment and comparison group and find that the CRI Program has been effective in raising learning achievement. Moreover, the results are robust to unobserved selection bias. The average gain for a CRI student represents an improvement of 0.40 standard deviations. The results stay unchanged when we use alternative estimators for the treatment effect including the bias-corrected estimator proposed by Abadie and Imbens (2006).

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecoedu:v:29:y:2010:i:4:p:669-683
Journal Field
Education
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-28