Does information lead to more active citizenship? Evidence from an education intervention in rural Kenya

World Development

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-83

  Lieberman, Evan S ^a   Posner, Daniel N ^b   Tsai, Lily L ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Africa; Education; Field experiments; Information; Kenya

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ACCOUNTABILITY; CITIZENSHIP; EDUCATION; INFORMATION; LEARNING; LITERACY;

KENYA;

EID: 84897929811     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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