Abstract

The Blinder-Oaxaca approach has been used to decompose the gender gap in mathematics test scores in private and public primary schools in Kenya. That is, the mathematics production functions are es...

Highlights

  • Many developing economies have made notable strides towards the achievement of universal basic education

  • This paper uses the Oaxaca (1973) approach in order to decompose the gender test score gaps in mathematics in Kenya at the primary school level, contributing to the existing literature which currently does not show whether the gap is as a result of differences in resource endowments between boys and girls or whether it results from differences in utilization of the resources

  • This section presents the results on mathematics scores function for boys and girls in private and public primary schools (Table 3)

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Introduction

Many developing economies have made notable strides towards the achievement of universal basic education. Ii) Decompose the male-female test score gap in mathematics in public and private primary schools in Kenya.

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