Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. In this study, we evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. We show t...

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Main Authors:	Filmer, Deon, Schady, Norbert
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Analysis of Education I210 Education: Government Policy I280 Economics of Gender Non-labor Discrimination J160 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5737

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spelling	okr-10986-57372021-04-23T14:02:23Z Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert Analysis of Education I210 Education: Government Policy I280 Economics of Gender Non-labor Discrimination J160 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. In this study, we evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. We show that the scholarship program increased the enrollment and attendance of recipients at program schools by about 30 percentage points. Larger impacts are found among girls with the lowest socioeconomic status at baseline. The results are robust to a variety of controls for observable differences between scholarship recipients and nonrecipients, to unobserved heterogeneity across girls, and to selective transfers between program schools and other schools. We conclude that there is substantial potential for demand-side interventions in lower-income countries like Cambodia. 2012-03-30T07:34:17Z 2012-03-30T07:34:17Z 2008 Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change 00130079 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5737 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Cambodia
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description	Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. In this study, we evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. We show that the scholarship program increased the enrollment and attendance of recipients at program schools by about 30 percentage points. Larger impacts are found among girls with the lowest socioeconomic status at baseline. The results are robust to a variety of controls for observable differences between scholarship recipients and nonrecipients, to unobserved heterogeneity across girls, and to selective transfers between program schools and other schools. We conclude that there is substantial potential for demand-side interventions in lower-income countries like Cambodia.
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title	Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
title_short	Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
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Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

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