Pitfalls of Participatory Programs : Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education ' in

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  • V. Banerjee
  • Rachel Glennerster
  • Stuti Khemani
  • Abhijit Banerjee
  • Rukmini Banerji
  • Esther Duflo
  • Abdul Latif Jameel
چکیده

Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource allocation, and monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey we found that people were not aware of the existence of these committees and their potential for improving education. This paper evaluates three different interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation through these committees: providing infonnation, training community members in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children. We find that these interventions had no impact on community involvement in public schools, and no impact on teacher effort or learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read had a large impact on activity outside public schools local youths volunteered to be trained to teach, and children who attended these camps substantially improved their reading skills. These results suggest that citizens face substantial constraints in participating to improve the public education system, even when they care about education and are willing to do something to improve it. Abhijit Banerjee MIT Department of Economics E52-252d 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 and NBER [email protected] Rukmini Banerji Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative MIT Department of Economics 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 [email protected] Rachel Glennerster Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab MIT Department of Economics E60-275 CambndgeMA 02139 [email protected] Stuti KJiemani The World Bank 1818 H Street N.W. Washington, DC 20433 [email protected] Esther Duflo MIT Department of Economics E52-252G 50 Memorial Drive CambndgeMA 02142 and NBER [email protected] Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/pitfallsofparticOObane

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تاریخ انتشار 2011