{"title":"The long-term effects of the free primary education policy on intergenerational mobility in Kenya: A household survey in 2015","authors":"Kentaro Shimada","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103109","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines Kenya's Free Primary Education policy's long-term effects on intergenerational mobility (IM). Children are likely to achieve a higher level of education than their mothers and fathers, especially those whose parents had no education. Analyzing the 1985–1994 cohort identifies a 1–3 % shift in IM compared to the 1985–1989 cohort, primarily driven by the rise of parental schooling. Kenya shows significant IM; thus, the background does not solely determine one's future. Kenya has a rate of return similar to the global average. Parental education's impact seems limited, and a child's education alleviates poverty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Educational Development","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059324001354","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study examines Kenya's Free Primary Education policy's long-term effects on intergenerational mobility (IM). Children are likely to achieve a higher level of education than their mothers and fathers, especially those whose parents had no education. Analyzing the 1985–1994 cohort identifies a 1–3 % shift in IM compared to the 1985–1989 cohort, primarily driven by the rise of parental schooling. Kenya shows significant IM; thus, the background does not solely determine one's future. Kenya has a rate of return similar to the global average. Parental education's impact seems limited, and a child's education alleviates poverty.
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The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings of the extent and nature of educational change in diverse settings. It stresses the importance of understanding the interplay of local, national, regional and global contexts and dynamics in shaping education and development. Orthodox notions of development as being about growth, industrialisation or poverty reduction are increasingly questioned. There are competing accounts that stress the human dimensions of development.
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