The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya

The authors evaluate the impact of an educational intervention, in which a Kenyan non-governmental organization distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine who wou...

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Main Authors:	Evans, David, Kremer, Michael, Ngatia, Muthoni
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	SCHOOL UNIFORMS ABSENTEEISM STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/311551491549236505/The-impact-of-distributing-school-uniforms-on-children-s-education-in-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26453

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spelling	okr-10986-264532021-04-23T14:04:36Z The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya Evans, David Kremer, Michael Ngatia, Muthoni SCHOOL UNIFORMS ABSENTEEISM STUDENT PERFORMANCE The authors evaluate the impact of an educational intervention, in which a Kenyan non-governmental organization distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine who would receive uniforms. Although compliance with the lottery was not perfect, we use winning the lottery as an instrumental variable to identify the impact of receiving a uniform. The authors find that giving a school uniform significantly reduces school absenteeism by 38 percent. Effects are much larger for poorer students who did not previously own a uniform: a 64 percent reduction in school absenteeism. Preliminary data suggest positive impacts of uniform distribution on test scores in core subjects. 2017-04-25T17:08:42Z 2017-04-25T17:08:42Z 2008-03-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/311551491549236505/The-impact-of-distributing-school-uniforms-on-children-s-education-in-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26453 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Kenya
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description	The authors evaluate the impact of an educational intervention, in which a Kenyan non-governmental organization distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine who would receive uniforms. Although compliance with the lottery was not perfect, we use winning the lottery as an instrumental variable to identify the impact of receiving a uniform. The authors find that giving a school uniform significantly reduces school absenteeism by 38 percent. Effects are much larger for poorer students who did not previously own a uniform: a 64 percent reduction in school absenteeism. Preliminary data suggest positive impacts of uniform distribution on test scores in core subjects.
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author	Evans, David Kremer, Michael Ngatia, Muthoni
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title	The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya
title_short	The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya
title_full	The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya
title_fullStr	The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya
title_full_unstemmed	The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya
title_sort	impact of distributing school uniforms on children’s education in kenya
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publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/311551491549236505/The-impact-of-distributing-school-uniforms-on-children-s-education-in-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26453
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