Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire (), Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts
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Oswald Koussihouèdé: University Gaston Berger
Nathalie Lahire: World Bank

No 8960, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: child development; school resources; decentralization; clustered randomized control trials; quality of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I20 I22 I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64 pages
Date: 2015-03
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Published - published as ' School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (345), 28-51

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Working Paper: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal (2015)
Working Paper: Decentralizing education resources: school grants in Senegal (2015)
Working Paper: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal (2015)
Working Paper: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal (2015)
Working Paper: Decentralizing education resources: school grants in Senegal (2015)
Working Paper: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal (2015)
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