CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Abdou, Mohamed Aly Mohamed |
|---|---|
| Title | When schools take the lead, students don't repeat: An impact assessment of Egypt's 2008-2010 financial decentralization pilot |
| Summary | In this paper, I evaluate the impact of Egypt’s financial decentralization pilot program (2008-2010) on the experience of grade retention for primary school students. The program decentralized school funding from the central government to local schools using an enrollment and needs-based formula and provided training to school staff to help them better manage the funds. Using household survey data on 28,331 respondents from the 1996/1997 cohorts and 26,881 respondents from the 1994/1995 cohorts, I estimate that the pilot program significantly decreases grade retention by 5.2 percentage points for primary school students. However, the program had a larger impact on females and students from above average income households compared to males and students coming from below average income households. On average, the program also had positive spill-over effects on untreated education stages. I also observe heterogenous effects in different regions that are correlated with the state’s development indicators. The results suggest that the financial decentralization interventions can have a positive but small impact on a student’s grade retention if the student is not from a disadvantaged socio-economic background. |
| Supervisor | Lychagin, Sergey |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/abdou_mohamed.pdf |
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