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Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools |
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Asim Khwaja
Professor of International Finance and Development
Co-Director of Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. PT
RAND Corporation
1776 Main St. • Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica Forum (m1226)
Webmeeting address:
https://webmeetingext.rand.org/idssmeeting
Call in number: 1-800-747-5150 (passcode: 3269008#)
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About the Program
Low cost private schooling has been one of the fastest growing sectors in low-income countries. Yet these small "mom-and-pop" schools face significant growth obstacles both in terms of size and quality. Asim Khwaja studied the equilibrium effects of unconditional cash grants to private schools across more than 250 villages and 850 schools in rural Pakistan and will discuss his findings. Learn more »
About the Speaker
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Co-Director of Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD). His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy. It has been published in the leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and he has received coverage in numerous media outlets such as the Economist, NY Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN.
Learn More
If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Khwaja, contact Adeyemi Okunogbe, okunogbe@prgs.edu.
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