Replication data for: Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Adrienne M. Lucas; Isaac M. Mbiti
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Project Citation:
Lucas, Adrienne M., and Mbiti, Isaac M. Replication data for: Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113900V1
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Summary:
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The most desirable Kenyan secondary schools are elite government schools that admit the best students from across the country. We exploit the random variation generated by the centralized school admissions process in a regression discontinuity design to obtain causal estimates of the effects of attending one of these elite public schools on student progression and test scores in secondary school. Despite their reputations, we find little evidence of positive impacts on learning outcomes for students who attended these schools, suggesting that their sterling reputations reflect the selection of students rather than their ability to generate value-added test score gains.
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H52 National Government Expenditures and Education
I21 Analysis of Education
I28 Education: Government Policy
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
H52 National Government Expenditures and Education
I21 Analysis of Education
I28 Education: Government Policy
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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