Can Free Provision Reduce Demand for Public Services? : Evidence from Kenyan Education
In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. We show that this policy contributed to a shift in demand away from free schools, where net enrollment stagnated after 2003, toward fee-charging private schools, where both enrollment and fee levels grew rapidly after 2003. These s...
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| Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25843 |