The Effect of Free Primary Education Policy on Late School Entry in Urban Primary Schools in Kenya

Autor/inn/en	Ngware, Moses W.; Oketch, Moses; Ezeh, Alex C.; Mutisya, Maurice
Titel	The Effect of Free Primary Education Policy on Late School Entry in Urban Primary Schools in Kenya
Quelle	In: International Review of Education, 59 (2013) 5, S.603-625 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/s11159-013-9389-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Access to Education; Educational Policy; Elementary Education; Barriers; Government Role; Case Studies; Program Effectiveness; Enrollment Trends; Grade 1; Probability; Socioeconomic Influences; Poverty; Costs; School Entrance Age; Urban Schools; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Elementarunterricht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Armut; Cost; Kosten; Einschulungsalter; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Kenia
Abstract	Late school entry is driven by several factors, one of the key ones being the cost barrier to schooling. Policies such as free primary education (FPE) that advocate for universal coverage are therefore partly aimed at removing the cost barrier. The Kenyan Government, like many in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), introduced FPE in 2003 with the aim of universalising access to schooling, which is one of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) it signed up to achieve. Based on a case study of four sites in Nairobi, the aim of this paper is to assess whether the FPE policy has affected late enrolment. The data used were collected by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and comprise a sub-sample of 4,325 first-graders during 2000-2005. The paper applies a probit model to assess the impact of the policy on the basis of marginal effects on the predicted probability of late enrolment. The results show that the FPE policy reduces the probability of late enrolment by 14 per cent. The reduction in probability of late enrolment was greater among children residing in slums (16 per cent) than those in non-slums (9 per cent). The main implication of the findings for policy makers is that cost barriers are a likely cause of over-age enrolment. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10