Effects of a Multifaceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning, and Gender Equity : Evidence from Rajasthan, India
The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This note documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program pursuing these three objectives simulta...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696001608720826348/Effects-of-a-Multifaceted-Education-Program-on-Enrollment-Learning-and-Gender-Equity-Evidence-from-Rajasthan-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34964 |
| Summary: | The Sustainable Development Goals set a
triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of,
and gender equity in education. This note documents the
effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program pursuing
these three objectives simultaneously. Using an experiment
in 229 schools in rural Rajasthan, India, this study
measures the effects of the program on students’ school
participation and academic performance over two years, as
well as its heterogeneous impacts by gender and initial
learning ability. The findings show that the program
increased student enrollment and retention, with the largest
effects observed among girls. There is no evidence that the
program differentially attracted lower-ability students.
There were large learning gains in both years, where the
learning outcomes of boys and girls improved equally. These
findings suggest that multifaceted interventions can
overcome the tradeoffs that often arise when pursuing
multiple objectives in educational interventions. |
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