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. The authors 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. They show that...

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Main Authors:	Filmer, Deon, Schady, Norbert
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	APPLICATION FORM APPLICATION FORMS BENEFICIARIES BIASES CALCULATIONS CASH TRANSFER CASH TRANSFERS CHILD LABOR CHILD LABOUR CLASS SIZE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT DEBTS DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION DISABLED EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION PROGRAM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT OF GIRLS ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLLMENT RATIO ENROLLMENTS EXPENDITURE FAMILIES FAMILY DECISIONS FEMALE EDUCATION FINANCIAL AID FINANCIAL INCENTIVES GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY GENDER PARITY GIRLS GIRLS INTO SCHOOL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS JOB TRAINING LAND OWNERSHIP LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE LOW INCOME LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MIDDLE EAST NUTRITION PAPERS PARENTAL EDUCATION PENSION PENSION INCOME PRESENT VALUES PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PROBABILITY QUALITY SCHOOLING RADIO RATE OF RETURN RECEIPT REPETITION RATES RURAL AREAS RURAL GIRLS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL VISIT SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN AREAS VILLAGES VOUCHER VOUCHER PROGRAM VOUCHERS WORTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/8788403/getting-girls-school-evidence-scholarship-program-cambodia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8962

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spelling	okr-10986-89622021-04-23T14:02:42Z Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert APPLICATION FORM APPLICATION FORMS BENEFICIARIES BIASES CALCULATIONS CASH TRANSFER CASH TRANSFERS CHILD LABOR CHILD LABOUR CLASS SIZE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT DEBTS DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION DISABLED EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION PROGRAM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT OF GIRLS ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLLMENT RATIO ENROLLMENTS EXPENDITURE FAMILIES FAMILY DECISIONS FEMALE EDUCATION FINANCIAL AID FINANCIAL INCENTIVES GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY GENDER PARITY GIRLS GIRLS INTO SCHOOL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS JOB TRAINING LAND OWNERSHIP LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE LOW INCOME LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MIDDLE EAST NUTRITION PAPERS PARENTAL EDUCATION PENSION PENSION INCOME PRESENT VALUES PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PROBABILITY QUALITY SCHOOLING RADIO RATE OF RETURN RECEIPT REPETITION RATES RURAL AREAS RURAL GIRLS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL VISIT SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN AREAS VILLAGES VOUCHER VOUCHER PROGRAM VOUCHERS WORTH Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. The authors 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. They show that the scholarship program had a large, positive effect on the school enrollment and attendance of girls. Their preferred set of estimates suggests program effects on enrollment and attendance at program schools of 30 to 43 percentage points. Scholarship recipients were also more likely to be enrolled at any scchool (not just program schools) by a margin of 22 to 33 percentage points. The impact of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) program appears to have been largest 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 attrition out of the sample. 2012-06-25T18:34:54Z 2012-06-25T18:34:54Z 2006-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/8788403/getting-girls-school-evidence-scholarship-program-cambodia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8962 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3910-IE CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Cambodia
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topic	APPLICATION FORM APPLICATION FORMS BENEFICIARIES BIASES CALCULATIONS CASH TRANSFER CASH TRANSFERS CHILD LABOR CHILD LABOUR CLASS SIZE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT DEBTS DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION DISABLED EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION PROGRAM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT OF GIRLS ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLLMENT RATIO ENROLLMENTS EXPENDITURE FAMILIES FAMILY DECISIONS FEMALE EDUCATION FINANCIAL AID FINANCIAL INCENTIVES GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY GENDER PARITY GIRLS GIRLS INTO SCHOOL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS JOB TRAINING LAND OWNERSHIP LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE LOW INCOME LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MIDDLE EAST NUTRITION PAPERS PARENTAL EDUCATION PENSION PENSION INCOME PRESENT VALUES PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PROBABILITY QUALITY SCHOOLING RADIO RATE OF RETURN RECEIPT REPETITION RATES RURAL AREAS RURAL GIRLS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL VISIT SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN AREAS VILLAGES VOUCHER VOUCHER PROGRAM VOUCHERS WORTH
spellingShingle	APPLICATION FORM APPLICATION FORMS BENEFICIARIES BIASES CALCULATIONS CASH TRANSFER CASH TRANSFERS CHILD LABOR CHILD LABOUR CLASS SIZE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT DEBTS DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION DISABLED EDUCATION FOR GIRLS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION PROGRAM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT OF GIRLS ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLLMENT RATIO ENROLLMENTS EXPENDITURE FAMILIES FAMILY DECISIONS FEMALE EDUCATION FINANCIAL AID FINANCIAL INCENTIVES GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY GENDER PARITY GIRLS GIRLS INTO SCHOOL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS JOB TRAINING LAND OWNERSHIP LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE LOW INCOME LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MIDDLE EAST NUTRITION PAPERS PARENTAL EDUCATION PENSION PENSION INCOME PRESENT VALUES PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PROBABILITY QUALITY SCHOOLING RADIO RATE OF RETURN RECEIPT REPETITION RATES RURAL AREAS RURAL GIRLS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL VISIT SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN AREAS VILLAGES VOUCHER VOUCHER PROGRAM VOUCHERS WORTH Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
geographic_facet	East Asia and Pacific Cambodia
relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3910-IE
description	Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. The authors 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. They show that the scholarship program had a large, positive effect on the school enrollment and attendance of girls. Their preferred set of estimates suggests program effects on enrollment and attendance at program schools of 30 to 43 percentage points. Scholarship recipients were also more likely to be enrolled at any scchool (not just program schools) by a margin of 22 to 33 percentage points. The impact of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) program appears to have been largest 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 attrition out of the sample.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert
author_facet	Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert
author_sort	Filmer, Deon
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
title_full	Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
title_fullStr	Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
title_full_unstemmed	Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
title_sort	getting girls into school : evidence from a scholarship program in cambodia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/8788403/getting-girls-school-evidence-scholarship-program-cambodia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8962
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Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

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