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Title: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Author(s): Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts

Publication Date: April 2015

Keyword(s): child development, clustered randomized control trials, decentralization, quality of education and school resources

Programme Area(s): Development Economics

Abstract: The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country?s education budget. We find large positive effects on test scores at younger grades that persist at least two years. We show that these effects are concentrated among schools that focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality.

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Carneiro, P, Koussihouèdé, O, Lahire, N, Meghir, C and Mommaerts, C. 2015. 'Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10527