The Effectiveness of Decentralized Education Programs: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach
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This paper develops ideal estimators to causally estimate the effect of two education reforms in India that expanded the access to schooling. These policies differed in their levels of decentralization in decision making. The different administrative levels decided which inputs the funds were allocated for and where the school-building was targeted. Comparing the two policies, I find evidence that the decentralized policy increases literacy rates more than the relatively centralized one. While one of the policies requires a Regression Discontinuity (RD) design, the other uses a multi-dimensional RD (MRD) approach. Since the MRD is new to the literature, I perform a Monte Carlo exercise to determine the ideal estimators, that may be used by researchers in other contexts as well. JEL: C1, O1, I20, I28, C5, O53,
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