The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children’s Education in Kenya
The authors evaluate the impact of an educational intervention, in which a Kenyan non-governmental organization distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine who wou...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/311551491549236505/The-impact-of-distributing-school-uniforms-on-children-s-education-in-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26453 |
| Summary: | The authors evaluate the impact of an
educational intervention, in which a Kenyan non-governmental
organization distributes school uniforms to children in poor
communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a
lottery to determine who would receive uniforms. Although
compliance with the lottery was not perfect, we use winning
the lottery as an instrumental variable to identify the
impact of receiving a uniform. The authors find that giving
a school uniform significantly reduces school absenteeism by
38 percent. Effects are much larger for poorer students who
did not previously own a uniform: a 64 percent reduction in
school absenteeism. Preliminary data suggest positive
impacts of uniform distribution on test scores in core subjects. |
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