Financial Constraints and Girls’ Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia

We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across geographic regions provides identifying variation in the policy. The program increased the number of girls...

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Main Authors: Blimpo, Moussa P., Gajigo, Ousman, Pugatch, Todd
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34294