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Detailed Information

Country	Country: Kenya
GDP per capita	634
Context details	Primary schools in 3 districts of Western Kenya
Age	Grades 1,2

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2005
Implementer	NGO
Duration (months)	15
Cost	Contract teachers received around US$ 35 per month. The average civil service teacher received around US$ 120 per month pus benefits.
Intervention details	Class size reduction from 25 to 20 students (computed from the original estimate of reducing the class size from 82 to 44); 70 schools participated

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	School

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Math	Standardized test	2	6533	Coeff: 5.10; SE: 7.80; SD: 100.00
Complete sample	Combined	Standardized test	2	6533	Coeff: 8.70; SE: 9.80; SD: 100.00
Complete sample	Language	Standardized test	2	6536	Coeff: 10.20; SE: 11.10; SD: 100.00

Study	Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer. "School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 17939 (2012).