TY - DATA T1 - Information Reduces Corruption and Improves Enrolment (But Not Schooling): A Replication Study of a Newspaper Campaign in Uganda PY - 2018/09/14 AU - Maria Kuecken AU - Marie-Anne Valfort UR - https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Information_Reduces_Corruption_and_Improves_Enrolment_But_Not_Schooling_A_Replication_Study_of_a_Newspaper_Campaign_in_Uganda/7087586 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.7087586.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/13033565 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/13033568 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/13033571 KW - -1990s Ugandan KW - latter outcome KW - government capitation grants KW - Newspaper Campaign KW - Replication Study KW - newspaper campaign KW - grassroots newspaper campaign KW - enrolment measure N2 - In the mid-1990s, Ugandan primary schools received only one-fifth of intended government capitation grants. A seminal study shows that a grassroots newspaper campaign substantially reduced grant capture and improved educational outcomes. We replicate these results, confirming that the campaign reduced corruption and increased enrolment. The latter outcome is only robust with an improved enrolment measure introduced in later work by the authors of the original study. We cannot, however, support the authors’ conclusion that lower capture enhanced learning. Finally, we show that the newspaper campaign allowed for a fairer allocation of teachers across schools, a result absent in the original papers. ER -