The Decline in Primary School Enrolment in Kenya

Arjun Singh Bedi

66 citations0/0 files storedJournal of African Economies

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare School Choice and Performance African Education and Politics

Abstract

Since independence in 1963, Kenya has invested substantial resources in the education sector. For almost twenty-five years, these investments and other government policies led to impressive gains in educational access at all levels. However, since the mid- to late 1980s there appears to have been an erosion in educational participation and a reversal of the gains achieved in previous decades. Motivated by this trend, this paper uses temporal, cross-section and pseudo-panel data to assess the plausibility of various factors that may be responsible for the decline in primary school educational enrolment. In particular, we consider the role of school fees, school inputs and curriculum, school availability, the expected benefits of education and the spread of HIV/AIDS. We also try to identify the most effective policy interventions that may be used to prevent further declines in primary school enrolment rates.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 66 citations exist upstream.

References

1986Random group effects and the precision of regression estimates 1985Panel data from time series of cross-sections 1992Improving primary education in developing countries 1985Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 1995Educational performance and child labor in Paraguay 1990The willingness to pay for education in developing countries 2002Primary school attendance in Honduras

Cited by

2002The impact of school quality on earnings and educational returns—evidence from a low-income country 2009Does Free Secondary Education Enable The Poor To Gain Access? A Study from Rural Kenya 2006Improving access to secondary education in Kenya: what can be done?2015School Fees and Access to Primary Education: Assessing Four Decades of Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa 2004A Review of the Health Sector in Kenya 2004Achieving Universal Primary Education: Can Kenya Afford it?2008The cost of early school-leaving and school failure

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.