Working Paper NOVAFRICA: The politics of policy reform – Experimental evidence from Liberia

Um novo working paper foi adicionado à serie Working Papers NOVAFRICA. Escrito por Wayne Aaron Sandholtz, este documento avalia aliatóriamente os efeitos eleitorais de uma reforma feita numa escola da Libéria que aumentou a aprendizagem dos estudantes, mas antagonizou os professores

Título: 
The politics of policy reform – Experimental evidence from Liberia

Autores:
Wayne Aaron Sandholtz (Nova School of Business and Economics e NOVAFRICA)

Resumo:
Public service reform often entails broad benefits for society and concentrated costs for interest groups. Do the electoral benefits outweigh the costs for politicians who implement reform? This paper examines the electoral effects of a randomized Liberian school reform which increased student learning but antagonized teachers. The policy reduced ruling party vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). It also reduced teachers’ job satisfaction by 0.18s and political involvement by 0.22s. I use the evaluation’s pairwise randomization to show that the effect on vote share was positively correlated with student learning, and negatively correlated with teacher political disengagement.

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