The Right to Education Act: Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality

American Economic Association - Tập 109 - Trang 232-238 - 2019
Manisha Shah1, Bryce Millett Steinberg2
1Department of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, 3250 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095 and NBER (email: )
2Department of Economics, Brown University, 64 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912 and NBER (email: )

Tóm tắt

The Right to Education (RTE) Act passed in 2009 guarantees access to free primary education to all children ages 6-14 in India. This paper investigates whether national trends in educational outcomes change around the time of this law using household surveys and administrative data. We document four trends: (1) school-going increases after the passage of RTE, (2) test scores decline dramatically after 2010, (3) school infrastructure appears to improve both before and after RTE, and (4) the number of students who have to repeat a grade falls precipitously after RTE is enacted, in line with official provisions of the law.

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Abhijit, 2007, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122, 1235, 10.1162/qjec.122.3.1235

10.1257/aer.101.5.1739

Urquiola Miguel, 2006, Journal of Public Economics, 90, 1477, 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.11.002

Das Jishnu, 2017, Journal of Public Economics, 145, 116, 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.11.005

Steinberg Bryce Millett, 2017, Journal of Political Economy, 125, 527, 10.1086/690828

Thông tin
Thông tin xuất bản

American Economic Association

Tập 109

232-238

Thông tin tác giả