Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

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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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8960

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Educational Finance; Financial Aid ; Education and Economic Development ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Thema: quality of education ; decentralization ; school resources ; child development ; clustered randomized control trials

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Carneiro, Pedro ; Koussihouèdé, Oswald ; Lahire, Nathalie ; Meghir, Costas ; Mommaerts, Corina
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/110689
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ