Long-Term Effects of Primary Education Expansion on Educational Achievement: Evidence from Lesotho

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, issue 149, 3-38

Abstract: Using university administrative data, I examine the long-term effects of Lesotho’s primary education expansion programme on educational achievement. This programme, known as the free-primary education (FPE) programme, was phased-in grade by grade, beginning with grade 1 in 2000. Thus, the programme implementation varied by time and grade cohort: all students who began schooling in 1999 or earlier paid fees in all primary school years, while those who entered grade 1 in 2000 or later did not. I exploit this variation to estimate this policy’s long-term average treatment effect using a semiparametric difference-in-differences strategy. The results indicate that the FPE programme plausibly increased the academic performance of students who progressed to university.

Keywords: Free Primary Education; Educational achievement; Long-term effects; Lesotho. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I22 I28 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2307/48718078

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