Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya
| Autor: | Alice Ng’ang’a, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Justin Sandefur, Tessa Bold, Germano Mwabu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Kenya Government 050204 development studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Opposition (politics) Developing country Public policy Sample (statistics) Public administration Politics 0502 economics and business Economics Bureaucracy 050207 economics Finance media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Economics. 168:1-20 |
| ISSN: | 0047-2727 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.08.007 |
| Popis: | What constraints arise when translating successful NGO programs to improve public services in developing countries into government policy? We report on a randomized trial embedded within a nationwide reform of teacher hiring in Kenyan government primary schools. New teachers offered a fixed-term contract by an international NGO significantly raised student test scores, while teachers offered identical contracts by the Kenyan government produced zero impact. Observable differences in teacher characteristics explain little of this gap. Instead, data suggests that bureaucratic and political opposition to the contract reform led to implementation delays and a differential interpretation of identical contract terms. Additionally, contract features that produced larger learning gains in both the NGO and government treatment arms were not adopted by the government outside of the experimental sample. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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