Does cost of schooling affect enrollment by the poor? Universal primary education in Uganda.

Autor/in	Deininger, Klaus
Titel	Does cost of schooling affect enrollment by the poor? Universal primary education in Uganda.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 22 (2003) 3, S. 291-305Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 39; Tabellen 5; Grafiken 1
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00053-5
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Schule; Schulbesuch; Schulgeldfreiheit; Schülerzahl; Primarbereich; Kosten; Qualität; Uganda
Abstract	The paper evaluates the impact of Uganda's program of "Universal Primary Education" which, starting from 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. (DIPF/Orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)