Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management : Evidence from India
The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simul...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/705251576157629056/Effects-of-a-Multi-Faceted-Education-Program-on-Enrollment-Equity-Learning-and-School-Management-Evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33024 |
| Summary: | The Sustainable Development Goals set a
triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of,
and gender equity in education. This paper documents the
effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program,
pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural
India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper
measures the effects of the program on students' school
participation and academic performance over two years, while
also examining heterogeneous impacts and sustainability. The
findings show that the program increased enrollment,
especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11.7
percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school
retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323
standard deviation due to the program in the first year and
0.156 standard deviation at the end of the second year,
which did not vary by gender. There were also large effects
on school management outcomes, increasing the number of
meetings by 16 percent and the number of improvement plans
completed by 25 percent. |
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