1 option
Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal / Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carneiro, Pedro.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21063.
- NBER working paper series no. w21063
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Decentralizing Education Resources
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2015.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.