TY  - UNPD
A1  - Bold, Tessa
A1  - Kimenyi, Mwangi
A1  - Mwabu, Germano
A1  - Sandefur, Justin
T1  - Why did abolishing fees not increase public school enrollment in Kenya?
T2  - Center for Global Development : Working Paper ; 271
N2  - 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.
T3  - Working paper / Center for Global Development - 271 
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30048
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-300489
UR  - https://www.cgdev.org/publication/why-did-abolishing-fees-not-increase-public-school-enrollment-kenya-working-paper-271
N1  - 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.
IS  - Working Paper 271
PB  - Center for Global Development
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -