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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bold, Tessa, Kimenyi, Mwangi, Germano, Mwabu, Sandefur, Justin
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25843