Dear Economics of Education Program members,
Many of you know Asim Khwaja (KSG) and you may also know that he,
along with Tahir Andrabi (Pomona), Jishnu Das (World Bank), Tara
Vishwanath (World Bank), and Tristan Zajonc (KSG) have been leading an
important research project, LEAPS, in the Punjab region of Pakistan.
They are generously making their survey data publicly available. This
is a terrific resource for anyone interested in studying educational
issues in South Asia or an extremely interesting developing country.
Please see below for information on the LEAPS project and data.
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The LEAPS project:
The Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS)
project is a multi-year project initiated by researchers at Harvard
University, Pomona College, and the World Bank that attempts to
capture and track changes in the educational universe at the primary
level (upto grade 5) in 112 villages in Pakistan. The main component
of the project is a set of extensive surveys designed & conducted by
the LEAPS team, with care being taken to be representative of the
various actors in the educational market.
The data consists of questionnaires administered to all 823 primary
schools (public, private, NGO) in the 112 villages, to over 800
teachers (with basic information on 5,000 teachers), 1800 households,
6000 school children, and achievement tests of 12,000 class 3 children
in Mathematics, English, and Urdu. All children, households, schools
and teachers are matched and then followed over three additional
(annual) rounds of surveys, for a complete 4-year panel.
The first round of data from these surveys & related documentation is
now publicly available for researchers at: www.leapsproject.org. The
website also provides related information (questionnaires for all
rounds, preliminary papers, and a LEAPS report that highlights
findings from the first round).
While the goal of the project has been to better understand the
educational market-place and learning quality in an emerging economy,
with a particular focus on the rapidly increasing role of the private
sector, we hope that the data, especially given its breadth/depth of
coverage, will be of value to the broader research community and the
website can help facilitate this. Please forward to others who may be
interested.
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Caroline M. Hoxby
Scott & Donya Bommer Prof. of Economics and Senior Fellow of the
Hoover Institution
Assistant: Kelly Carson
650-723-9678, carson_at_stanford.edu
Contact Information
at the department of economics:
Department of Economics
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Stanford CA 94305
telephone: 650-725-8719
at the Hoover Institution:
Hoover Institution
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Stanford CA 94305-6010
telephone: 650-725-7256
email: hoxby_at_hoover.stanford.edu
Received on Mon Jun 02 2008 - 18:39:33 EDT
