Expanding access to secondary education: Evidence from a fee reduction and capacity expansion policy in Kenya |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago;2. Urban Institute Health Policy Center;1. University of Mannheim, Department of Economics, Office 326, L7, 3-5, Mannheim, 68161, Germany;2. University of Essex, Department of Economics, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom;1. Tulane University, New Orleans, USA;2. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA;3. National Bureau of Economic Research, USA;4. Department of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA;1. Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark;2. TrygFonden''s Centre for Child Research, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark;3. VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark;1. University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany;2. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia |
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| Abstract: | I investigate the Kenyan government’s 2008 public secondary school expansion policy which lowered school fees and increased capacity. This policy rapidly increased the proportion of students continuing from primary to secondary school, particularly from areas with low initial primary to secondary transition rates. Using this regional variation in exposure to the program together with birth-cohort variation, I show that the program increased female educational achievement, delayed childbirth and related demographic behaviors, and shifted employment away from agriculture towards skilled work. |
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