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Abstract
Few policies are as universally accepted as raising primary school enrollment in
developing countries, but the policy levers for achieving this goal are not straight
forward. This paper merges household survey data with detailed school supply
characteristics from official sources, in order to estimate the relative impact of demand and
supply-side determinants of rural primary school enrollment in Mozambique. Policy
simulations based on a set of “plausible” interventions show that demand-side
interventions, particularly those aimed at raising rural adult literacy, will have the biggest impact on primary school enrollment rates.