Project's Details

Title: The Impact of Schooling Type on Student Achievement in Dhaka

PI: Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Provost's Chair Professor, Department of Sociology; and Founding Director of CFPR, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS; and Asia Research Institute's Research Leader of Changing Family in Asia Cluster, NUS

Co-PI: Associate Professor Jussi Keppo, Dean's Chair and Research Director of Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, NUS Business School

International Collaborators: Professor John Ham, Global Network Professor of Economics, NYU Wagner and Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi

Amount: S$125,102

Completed: February 2019

Abstract

This project has two goals; the first of which is to estimate the impact of an important new type of schooling instruction in the slums of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, using a cross-sectional data set that the PI and his student have collected. The second goal is to re-interview the children in the first round in order to produce a two-period panel data set, which will make the evaluation in the first goal more convincing. The study will collect data on family characteristics, the schooling history of the sampled children, child characteristics, and the distance between the closest school of each type and each child’s home. Linear methods and propensity score matching will be used in their analysis.