Why did abolishing fees not increase public school enrollment in Kenya?
- A large empirical literature has shown that user fees signicantly deter public service utilization in developing #countries. While most of these results reflect partial equilibrium analysis, we find that the nationwide abolition of public school fees in Kenya in 2003 led to no increase in net public enrollment rates, but rather a dramatic shift toward private schooling. Results suggest this divergence between partial- and general-equilibrium effects is partially explained by social interactions: the entry of poorer pupils into free education contributed to the exit of their more affluent peers.
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| Author: | Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-300489 |
| URL: | https://www.cgdev.org/publication/why-did-abolishing-fees-not-increase-public-school-enrollment-kenya-working-paper-271 |
| Parent Title (English): | Center for Global Development : Working Paper ; 271 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working paper / Center for Global Development (271) |
| Publisher: | Center for Global Development |
| Place of publication: | Washington, DC |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/05/28 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/05/28 |
| Issue: | Working Paper 271 |
| Page Number: | 28 |
| Note: | The Center for Global Development is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor. Use and dissemination of this Working Paper is encouraged; however, reproduced copies may not be used for commercial purposes. Further usage is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons License. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 347494854 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 |
