Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130033 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP15/15
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
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
Subjects: 
Quality of education
Decentralization
School resources
Child Development
Clustered Randomized Control Trials
JEL: 
H52
I22
I25
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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