Effect of public education expenditure on selected primary education outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bernardin Senadza; Louis Sitsofe Hodey

doi:10.1504/IJEED.2015.075794

Effect of public education expenditure on selected primary education outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bernardin Senadza, Louis Sitsofe Hodey

Department of Economics

University of Ghana

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This paper investigates the effect of public education spending on primary education outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use two primary education outcomes, namely: the net enrolment rate (NER) and persistence to the last grade of primary education (PLG). Employing the random effects estimation method for a panel of 18 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2012, we find that public education expenditure exerts positive significant effects on both the NER and the PLG. The results suggest that schooling for all is attainable if governments in SSA are willing to give public expenditures on primary education a priority.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	314-330
Number of pages	17
Journal	International Journal of Education Economics and Development
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEED.2015.075794
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Education outcomes
Public education expenditure
Random effects
SSA
Sub-Saharan Africa

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Effect of public education expenditure on selected primary education outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

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