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Replication data for: Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?

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Title Replication data for: Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28147
 
Creator Bold, Tessa
Kimenyi, Mwangi
Mwabu, Germano
Sandefur, Justin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description A large empirical literature has shown that user fees significantly deter public service utilization in developing countries. While most of these results reflect partial equilibrium analysis, we find that the nationwide abolition of public school fees in Kenya in 2003 led to no increase in net public enrollment rates, but rather a dramatic shift toward private schooling. Results suggest this divergence between partial- and general-equilibrium effects is partially explained by social interactions: the entry of poorer pupils into free education contributed to the exit of their more affluent peers.
 
Subject education
 
Date 2011-10