Arbeitspapier
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8960
- Classification
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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
- Subject
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quality of education
decentralization
school resources
child development
clustered randomized control trials
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Carneiro, Pedro
Koussihouèdé, Oswald
Lahire, Nathalie
Meghir, Costas
Mommaerts, Corina
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Carneiro, Pedro
- Koussihouèdé, Oswald
- Lahire, Nathalie
- Meghir, Costas
- Mommaerts, Corina
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015