Pricing Private Education in Urban India: Demand, Use and Impact
Presented by:
Priya Mukherjee
Department of Economics
College of William and Mary
Friday, November 1, 2019
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Taylor-Hibbard Seminar Room (Rm103)
Private education services--including both private schools and after-school tutoring--forms a substantial part of the education sector in the developing world. We conduct a field experiment to study the role of prices in the market for tutoring in Delhi's slums. Using a two-part pricing design, we identify whether higher willingness to pay is associated with higher attendance in tutoring classes and whether prices have causal impacts on attendance and dropout. We find that higher willingness to pay is associated with higher attendance, but that lower prices reduce dropout. Using assigned prices as instruments for take-up of the classes, we find no evidence that tutoring impacts average test scores.
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