TY - BOOK ID - 134180062 TI - Report Cards : The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets AU - Andrabi, Tahir AU - Das, Jishnu AU - Khwaja, Asim Ijaz PY - 2015 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Education for All KW - Educational Markets KW - Effective Schools & Teachers KW - Information Provision KW - Market-Level Experiments KW - Primary Education KW - Private Schools KW - Private Sector Development KW - Secondary Education KW - Tertiary Education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134180062 AB - This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11 standard deviations, decreased private school fees by 17 percent, and increased primary enrollment by 4.5 percent. Heterogeneity in the treatment impact by initial school quality is consistent with canonical models of asymmetric information. Information provision facilitates better comparisons across providers, improves market efficiency and raises child welfare through higher test scores, higher enrollment, and lower fees. ER -