Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305585 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11343
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
I use variation in ex-ante school fee payments to measure how Free Secondary Education (FSE) affected primary students in Tanzania. I first confirm FSE increased secondary access: secondary enrollments rose, household spending on secondary school fees plummeted, and elites’ transition premium disappeared. I then show that FSE increased primary exam pass rates by 6% and secondary transition rates by 23%. This was not due to supply inputs: there was no effect on school entry, and class sizes rose. Instead it appears to be driven by demand-side investments: primary students selected into better schools, attended more, and worked less.
Subjects: 
school access
human capital investments
high-stakes exam data
Tanzania
JEL: 
I25
H52
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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