Scaling-up what works : experimental evidence on external validity in Kenyan education
- The recent wave of randomized trials in development economics has provoked criticisms regarding external validity. We investigate two concerns—heterogeneity across beneficiaries and implementers—in a randomized trial of contract teachers in Kenyan schools. The intervention, previously shown to raise test scores in NGO- led trials in Western Kenya and parts of India, was replicated across all Kenyan provinces by an NGO and the government. Strong effects of shortterm contracts produced in controlled experimental settings are lost in weak public institutions: NGO implementation produces a positive effect on test scores across diverse contexts, while government implementation yields zero effect. The data suggests that the stark contrast in success between the government and NGO arm can be traced back to implementation constraints and political economy forces put in motion as the program went to scale.
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| Author: | Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Alice Ng'ang'a, Justin Sandefur |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-300025 |
| URL: | http://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/Sandefur-et-al-Scaling-Up-What-Works.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Center for global development: Working paper : 321 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working paper / Center for Global Development (321) |
| Publisher: | Center for Global Development |
| Place of publication: | Washington, DC |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2013 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/05/28 |
| Tag: | Kenya; education; randomized control trials |
| Issue: | 2013,04 |
| Page Number: | 48 S. |
| 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: | 344311740 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Afrika südlich der Sahara | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 3.0 |
