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Title: Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: In developing parts of the world, significant increases in primary school enrollment are often generated by large national level programs, which can simultaneously promote overcrowding and reductions in education quality. To analyze this trade-off one must first identify and evaluate the effect of the reform on schooling. This paper provides a method with which a reform’s impact can be identified in developing settings using both temporal and geographic variation, and readily available data. The method is applied to an early 1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from grades one to ten. The model finds that the reform generated an increase in schooling of 1.2 years. Further evidence demonstrates the additional enrollment also led to a higher rate of literacy, suggesting an increase in learning.

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Authors: Chicoine, Luke, E

Series Title: IZA Discussion Papers Series

Publication Number: 9916

Institution: Institute for the Study of Labor

Pages: 43

Publisher Location: Bonn, Germany

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Education, Other, Poverty and Welfare

Countries: Ethiopia