The Impact of Secondary Schooling in Kenya : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
This paper estimates the impacts of secondary school on human capital, occupational choice, and fertility for young adults in Kenya. The probability of admission to government secondary school rises sharply at a score close to the national mean on...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24879182/impact-secondary-schooling-kenya-regression-discontinuity-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22442 |
| Summary: | This paper estimates the impacts of
secondary school on human capital, occupational choice, and
fertility for young adults in Kenya. The probability of
admission to government secondary school rises sharply at a
score close to the national mean on a standardized 8th grade
examination, permitting the estimation of causal effects of
schooling in a regression discontinuity framework. The
analysis combines administrative test score data with a
recent survey of young adults to estimate these impacts. The
results show that secondary schooling increases human
capital, as measured by performance on cognitive tests
included in the survey. For men, there is a drop in the
probability of low-skill self-employment, as well as
suggestive evidence of a rise in the probability of formal
employment. The opportunity to attend secondary school also
reduces teen pregnancy among women. |
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