Does the budget really matter? Outcomes from Uganda’s primary education spending, IPRA Working Paper 12

This paper uses data from series of Education Statistical Abstract (ESA) 1989-1992, ESA 1993, ESA 1994, ESA 1995, ESA 1996, ESA 1997, ESA 1998, Headcount and School Mapping Exercises 1999, ESA 2000, and ESA 2001 and interviews to assess the effect of UPE, and public education expenditures on quantity and access to primary education (as measured by the primary gross enrolment ratio, the primary net enrolment ratio), the internal efficiency of education systems (as measured by the survival rate to primary grade five, the primary school completion rate, and dropout rates).