Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years

Resource type
Report
Authors/contributors
Title
Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years
Abstract
After three years, outsourcing management of public schools to private providers raised test scores by 0.21 standard deviations in math and 0.16 standard deviations in English (equivalent to 4 words per minute additional reading fluency for the cohort that started in first grade). Looking beyond learning gains, the program reduced corporal punishment (by 4.6 percentage points from a base of 51%), but increased dropout (by 3.3 percentage points from a base of 15%) and failed to reduce sexual abuse. Results vary by provider: some produced uniformly positive results, while others present stark trade-offs between learning gains and other outcomes.
Institution
Center for Global Development
Date
December 2019
Pages
4
Language
en
Library Catalogue
Zotero
Citation
Sandefur, J., & Romero, M. (2019). Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years (p. 4). Center for Global Development.