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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w28937 |
来源ID | Working Paper 28937 |
The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana | |
Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Michael Kremer | |
发表日期 | 2021-06-21 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Following the widespread adoption of free primary education, African policymakers are now considering making secondary school free, but little is known about the private and social benefits of free secondary education. We exploit randomized assignment to secondary school scholarships among 2,064 youths in Ghana, combined with 12 years of data, to establish that scholarships increase educational attainment, knowledge, skills, and preventative health behaviors, while reducing female fertility. Eleven years after receipt of the scholarship, only female winners show private labor market gains, but those come primarily in the form of better access to jobs with rents (in particular rationed jobs in the public sector). We develop a simple model to interpret the labor market results and help think through the welfare impact of free secondary education. |
主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28937 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586611 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Esther Duflo,Pascaline Dupas,Michael Kremer. The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana. 2021. |
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