Does cost of schooling affect enrollment by the poor? Universal primary education in Uganda
Does cost of schooling affect enrollment by the poor? Universal primary education in Uganda
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DOI：
10.1016/s0272-7757(02)00053-5
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发表时间：
2003-06-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Deininger, K
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作者：
Deininger, K
本文评价了乌干达从1997年开始免除小学入学费的“普及小学教育”计划的影响。我们发现，该计划与小学入学率的大幅增加有关，与性别，收入和地区有关的入学不平等现象大幅减少，父母支付的学费在小学而不是在中学减少。与此同时，教育质量的普遍下降表明，为了持续提高入学率并将其转化为更高水平的人力资本，该政策需要辅之以提高学校质量和中等教育的可获得性。(C)2003爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
The paper evaluates the impact of Uganda's program of "Universal Primary Education" which, starting front 1997, dispensed with fees for primary enrollment. We find that the program was associated with a dramatic increase in primary school attendance, that inequalities in attendance related to gender, income, and region, were substantially reduced and that school fees paid by parents decreased at the primary but not at the secondary level. At the same time the general decline in the quality of education suggests that, in order to lead to sustained improvements in attendance and to transform these into higher levels of human capital, the policy needs to be complemented by improvements in school quality and accessibility of secondary education. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.