We empirically investigate the extent to which weak local governance such as corruption, lack of effectiveness, and responsiveness in local government offices in Africa affects the likelihood that citizens experience educational resource challenges in their local public schools. We consider the challenges of lack of textbooks, poor school facilities, expensive school fees, teacher absenteeism, overcrowded classrooms, and poor teaching quality. Our perception-based indicators of local governance are measured at the regional/provincial level, the smallest geographical location in our pooled Afrobarometer data set across 33 African countries. We find that local government officials' corrupt behaviors and ineffectiveness increase the local inhabitants' probability of experiencing challenges in their local public schools, even after controlling for government expenditure on education. The cross-region analysis with instrumental variables reports that a one-point increase in the percentage of citizens who perceived their local government officials as corrupt yields an increase that ranges between 0.4 and 0.9 in the percentage of people who face poor human or physical school resources in their local public schools. These values range between 0.2 and 0.4 for a one-point percentage increase in the measure of local government ineffectiveness.

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教育资源如何响应非洲地方治理的质量？

我们实证调查了非洲地方政府办公室的腐败、缺乏效率和响应能力等薄弱的地方治理对公民在当地公立学校遇到教育资源挑战的可能性的影响程度。我们考虑了缺乏教科书、学校设施差、学费昂贵、教师缺勤、教室人满为患和教学质量差等挑战。我们基于感知的地方治理指标是在区域/省一级衡量的，这是我们在 33 个非洲国家汇总的非洲晴雨表数据集中的最小地理位置。我们发现地方政府官员的腐败行为和低效率增加了当地居民在当地公立学校遇到挑战的可能性，即使在控制了政府的教育支出之后。使用工具变量的跨区域分析报告说，认为当地政府官员腐败的公民比例每增加 1 个百分点，就会导致面临贫困的人力或物理学校资源的人口比例增加 0.4 到 0.9在他们当地的公立学校。这些值的范围在 0.2 到 0.4 之间，表示地方政府无效的衡量标准增加了一个百分点。在当地公立学校面临人力或物理学校资源匮乏的人的百分比为 9。这些值的范围在 0.2 到 0.4 之间，表示地方政府无效的衡量标准增加了一个百分点。在当地公立学校面临人力或物理学校资源匮乏的人的百分比为 9。这些值的范围在 0.2 到 0.4 之间，表示地方政府无效的衡量标准增加了一个百分点。