Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/114072 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9208
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania and find that it led to large increases in the pupil-teacher ratio and a reduction in observable teacher quality, but rule out a substantial effect on test scores overall. These results are robust to instrumenting enrollment growth using predetermined fertility and migration decisions, and not driven by compositional changes. In urban areas, however, where baseline achievement was higher, test scores deteriorated where enrollment growth was larger.
Subjects: 
universal primary education
pupil-teacher ratio
test scores
Tanzania
JEL: 
I21
I28
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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