Educational Production Functions for Rural
A Comparative Institutional Analysis
Shahrukh
Rafi Khan and David Kiefer
forthcoming
2007 Education Economics
This
study uses a production function approach to identify the impact of student,
parent, teacher, and school policy variables on student performance on
comprehension and math tests. Our statistical analysis is conducted in a
comparative institutional context that includes government, private, and NGO
schools. This study also adds to the literature by accounting for field
observations of “school intangibles,” along with more objective indicators of
educational inputs. We find that intangibles do contribute to student
performance, and that, at least in the Pakistani context, NGO schools are more
effective than government schools.