Report Cards: Parental Preferences, Information and School Choice in Haiti

Michael Borger, Gregory Elacqua, Isabel Jacas, Christopher Neilson and Anne Sofie Westh Olsen

No 12884, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market level randomized control trial, we evaluate the aggregate effect of providing test score information on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we find that private schools have higher test scores, with an average increase of 0.3 standard deviations in treated markets. However, we are unable to detect significant changes to prices and market shares. These findings suggest that providing information in poor education markets can improve market efficiency and benefit children's welfare.

Keywords: private schooling; information asymmetries; school choice; economic development; Haiti (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I22 I24 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05
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DOI: 10.18235/0004933

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