School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya

Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report long-term impacts, however. This paper reports the impact of an educational intervention that reduced out-of-pocket schooling costs...

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Main Authors:	Evans, David K., Ngatia, Mũthoni
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	EDUCATION SCHOOL BUDGET SCHOOL UNIFORMS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE ABSENTEEISM
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/719431525101982154/School-costs-short-run-participation-and-long-run-outcomes-evidence-from-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29766

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spelling	okr-10986-297662021-06-08T14:42:46Z School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya Evans, David K. Ngatia, Mũthoni EDUCATION SCHOOL BUDGET SCHOOL UNIFORMS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE ABSENTEEISM Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report long-term impacts, however. This paper reports the impact of an educational intervention that reduced out-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student (7 percentage points) and by 55 percent for children who initially had no uniform (15 percentage points). Eight years after the program began, there is no evidence of sustained impact of the program on highest grade completed or primary school completion rates. A bounding exercise suggests no substantive positive, long-term impacts. These results contribute to a small literature that demonstrates the risk of fade-out of initial impacts of education investments. 2018-05-02T17:18:42Z 2018-05-02T17:18:42Z 2018-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/719431525101982154/School-costs-short-run-participation-and-long-run-outcomes-evidence-from-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29766 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8421 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Kenya
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topic	EDUCATION SCHOOL BUDGET SCHOOL UNIFORMS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENROLLMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE ABSENTEEISM
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description	Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report long-term impacts, however. This paper reports the impact of an educational intervention that reduced out-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student (7 percentage points) and by 55 percent for children who initially had no uniform (15 percentage points). Eight years after the program began, there is no evidence of sustained impact of the program on highest grade completed or primary school completion rates. A bounding exercise suggests no substantive positive, long-term impacts. These results contribute to a small literature that demonstrates the risk of fade-out of initial impacts of education investments.
format	Working Paper
author	Evans, David K. Ngatia, Mũthoni
author_facet	Evans, David K. Ngatia, Mũthoni
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title	School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
title_short	School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
title_full	School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
title_fullStr	School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
title_full_unstemmed	School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
title_sort	school costs, short-run participation, and long-run outcomes : evidence from kenya
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/719431525101982154/School-costs-short-run-participation-and-long-run-outcomes-evidence-from-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29766
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School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya

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