Ten-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Program

APPENDIX D
MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH
Table D.2. Costs of traditional government schools
A. Fixed costs over school life (30 years)
High-cost
scenario
Original period (2006–2008) Upgrade period (2009–2011)
Low-cost
scenario
% schools
with amenity
High-cost
scenario
Low-cost
scenario
% additional
schools with
amenity a
School complex b $65,734 $25,446 1 $65,734 $25,446 0 c
Playground d $0 $58 1 $0 $58 0 c
Construction supervision $0 $456 1 $0 $456 0 c
M & E coordination $0 $456 1 $0 $456 0 c
Water supply e $0 $0 0.17 $0 $0 0.319
Daycare d $0 $3,248 0.021 $0 $3,248 0.05
Toilets d $0 $1,590 0.213 $0 $1,590 0.45
Separate toilets (for boys and girls) d $0 $1,590 0.149 $0 $1,590 0.226
Total fixed costs $65,734 $27,058 $65,734 $1,237
Annualized fixed costs f $2,191 $902 $2,191 $41
B. Annual costs (1 year)
Take-home rations $1,400 $1,400 0.149 $1,400 $1,400 0.0201
Teacher salary g $5,852 $5,852 $10,152 $10,152
Total annual costs $6,060 $6,060 $10,180 $10,361
C. Maintenance costs (5 years)
Maintenance h $1,463 $629 $1,463 $629
Total other costs $1,463 $629 $1,463 $629
Annualized other costs f $293 $126 $293 $126
Note: Cost estimates for the government schools were obtained from the Ministry of Education in 2009 for the 2006–2008 period and are assumed to be the same in the 2009–
2011 period. The fraction of schools with each amenity is calculated based on the average characteristics of the traditional schools within 40 points of the discontinuity. All
cost estimates are presented in 2006 U.S. dollars. Cost estimates in the 2009–2011 period are adjusted for inflation between 2006 and 2009 using the gross domestic
product (GDP) deflator data from International Monetary Fund (IMF) (IMF 2014).
a
Calculated by subtracting the percentage of schools with amenity in the 2006–2008 period from the percentage in the 2009–2011 period, for fixed costs only.
b
School complex costs for the high-cost scenario include the cost of the classrooms, teachers' houses, borehole, and other fixed costs.
c
It is assumed that no new traditional government schools were built in the 2009–2011 period.
d
We were unable to find cost estimates for these amenities for the low-cost scenario; they are, however, included in the complex cost for the high-cost scenario. For the low-cost
scenario, costs are estimated by taking the costs for the BRIGHT schools in 2006–2008 and reducing them in proportion to the relative cost of a BRIGHT and traditional government
school building with three classrooms, 43 percent.
e
In the high-cost scenario, we assume that this is included in the complex price. For the low-cost scenario, we assume that no clean water point was constructed.
f
Annual costs are calculated using straight-line depreciation over the expected lifetime of the investment.
g
Teacher salary is estimated by multiplying our estimate for the annual salary of a teacher ($2,978) by the number of teachers in each type of school. This is 1.97 in the 2006–2008
period and 3.418 in the 2009–2011 period.
h
We were unable to obtain estimates of this cost. For the high-cost scenario, we include the cost at the same rate as for the BRIGHT schools. For the low-cost scenario, we reduce the
BRIGHT cost as described in note 4.
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