School Uniforms, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes

• Tác giả: Mũthoni Ngatia
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 378.2 Academic degrees and related topics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 320898
• Chủ đề: 1. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; 2. EDUCATION; 3. EDUCATION COST REDUCTION; 4. LONG-TERM IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION; 5. SCHOOL UNIFORMS

Tóm tắt

In recent decades, the number of evaluated interventions to improve access to school has multiplied, but few studies report long-term impacts. This paper reports the impact of an educational intervention that provided school uniforms to children in poor communities in Kenya. The program used a lottery to determine who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student (7 percentage points) and by 55 percent for children who initially had no uniform (15 percentage points). Eight years after the program began, there is no evidence of sustained impact of the program on highest grade completed or primary school completion rates. A bounding exercise suggests no substantive positive, long-term impacts. These results contribute to a small literature on the long-run impacts of educational interventions and demonstrate the risk of initial impacts depreciating over time.