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Decentralizing education resources: School grants in Senegal

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country's education budget. We find large positive effects on test scores at younger grades that persist at least two years. We show that these effects are concentrated among schools that focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper ; No. 1047

Classification
Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Education
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Education and Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Subject
Quality of Education
Decentralization
School Resources
Child Development
Clustered Randomized Control Trials

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Carneiro, Pedro
Koussihouede, Oswald
Lahire, Nathalie
Meghir, Costas
Mommaerts, Corina
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Yale University, Economic Growth Center
(where)
New Haven, CT
(when)
2015

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Carneiro, Pedro
  • Koussihouede, Oswald
  • Lahire, Nathalie
  • Meghir, Costas
  • Mommaerts, Corina
  • Yale University, Economic Growth Center

Time of origin

  • 2015

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