Does abolishing fees reduce school quality? Evidence from Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Bold, Tessa
dc.contributor.author	Kimenyi, Mwangi
dc.contributor.author	Mwabu, Germano
dc.contributor.author	Sandefur, Justin
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-22T14:40:44Z
dc.date.available	2014-12-22T14:40:44Z
dc.date.issued	2010-12-30
dc.identifier.citation	Bold, T., Kimenyi, M., Mwabu, G., & Sandefur, J. (2010). Does abolishing fees reduce school quality? Evidence from Kenya. Centre for the Study of African Economics (CSAE) Working Paper WPS/2011-04.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11295/78265
dc.description.abstract	In2003Kenyaabolisheduserfeesinallgovernmentprimaryschools. We ﬁnd that this Free Primary Education (FPE) policy resulted in a decline in public school quality and increased demand for private schooling. However,the former did not reﬂect a decline in value added by public schools - as anticipated if fees contribute to local accountability - but rather the selection of weaker pupils into free education. In contrast, aﬄuent children who exited to the private sector in response to FPE beneﬁted from a strong, causal eﬀect on their exam	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi	en_US
dc.title	Does abolishing fees reduce school quality? Evidence from Kenya	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
dc.type.material	en_US	en_US