Financing Education Equity: A Study of Three Country Cases

This study unpacks the nature of the household spending on education and investigate whether the expected cost of participation substantially deepens the equity gap between the poor and the relatively wealthier households in school enrollment decisions. This paper was prepared for the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity as a background paper for the report, The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world. 

Year Published: 2017

Author(s):

• Carina Omoeva, Ania Chaluda, Wael Moussa, Rachel Hatch, FHI 360 Education Policy and Data Center
• William C. Smith, RESULTS Educational Fund