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

This study analyzes 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 vari...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Blimpo, Moussa P., Gajigo, Ousman, Pugatch, Todd
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	gender gap secondary education school fees school effectiveness
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131321481039247615/Financial-constraints-and-girls-secondary-education-evidence-from-school-fee-elimination-in-the-Gambia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25807

id	okr-10986-25807
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-258072021-06-08T14:42:46Z Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia Blimpo, Moussa P. Gajigo, Ousman Pugatch, Todd gender gap secondary education school fees school effectiveness This study analyzes 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 taking the high school exit exam by 55 percent. The share of older test takers increased in poorer districts, expanding access for students who began school late, repeated grades, or whose studies had been interrupted. Despite these changes in the quantity and composition of students, there are robustly positive point estimates of the program on test scores, with suggestive evidence of gains for several subgroups of both girls and boys. Absence of learning declines is notable in a setting where expanded access could strain limited resources and reduce school quality. The findings suggest that financial constraints remain serious barriers to post-primary education, and that efforts to expand access to secondary education need not come at the expense of learning in low-income countries like The Gambia. 2017-01-04T23:07:27Z 2017-01-04T23:07:27Z 2016-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131321481039247615/Financial-constraints-and-girls-secondary-education-evidence-from-school-fee-elimination-in-the-Gambia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25807 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7908 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Gambia, The
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	English en_US
topic	gender gap secondary education school fees school effectiveness
spellingShingle	gender gap secondary education school fees school effectiveness Blimpo, Moussa P. Gajigo, Ousman Pugatch, Todd Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
geographic_facet	Africa Gambia, The
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7908
description	This study analyzes 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 taking the high school exit exam by 55 percent. The share of older test takers increased in poorer districts, expanding access for students who began school late, repeated grades, or whose studies had been interrupted. Despite these changes in the quantity and composition of students, there are robustly positive point estimates of the program on test scores, with suggestive evidence of gains for several subgroups of both girls and boys. Absence of learning declines is notable in a setting where expanded access could strain limited resources and reduce school quality. The findings suggest that financial constraints remain serious barriers to post-primary education, and that efforts to expand access to secondary education need not come at the expense of learning in low-income countries like The Gambia.
format	Working Paper
author	Blimpo, Moussa P. Gajigo, Ousman Pugatch, Todd
author_facet	Blimpo, Moussa P. Gajigo, Ousman Pugatch, Todd
author_sort	Blimpo, Moussa P.
title	Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
title_short	Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
title_full	Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
title_fullStr	Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
title_full_unstemmed	Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
title_sort	financial constraints and girls' secondary education : evidence from school fee elimination in the gambia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131321481039247615/Financial-constraints-and-girls-secondary-education-evidence-from-school-fee-elimination-in-the-Gambia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25807
_version_	1764460199921319936

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

Similar Items