Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls
While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program has been introduced, this study does so over an extended duration of a program. Administered in Punjab, Pakistan, the program offe...
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okr-10986-331022022-09-20T00:13:46Z Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls Chhabra, Esha Najeeb, Fatima Raju, Dhushyanth REGRESSIVE DISCONTINUITY STUDY CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER EDUCATION GENDER SECONDARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT LITERACY While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program has been introduced, this study does so over an extended duration of a program. Administered in Punjab, Pakistan, the program offers cash benefits to households conditional on girls' regular attendance in secondary grades in government schools. The study evaluates the evolution of the program's effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers over roughly a decade of its existence. The program was targeted to districts with low adult literacy rates, a targeting mechanism that provides an observed, numerical program assignment variable and results in a cutoff value. Recent advances in regression discontinuity designs allow the study to appropriately fit key features of the data. The study finds that the program had positive effects on girls’ secondary school enrollment numbers throughout the period and that these effects were stable. This pattern is observed despite a loss of more than 60 percent in the real value of the cash benefit over the period. The findings are consistent with potential behavioral explanations, such as the program making girls' education salient to households or catalyzing a shift in social norms around girls' education. 2019-12-27T16:17:22Z 2019-12-27T16:17:22Z 2019-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/964631576770163170/Effects-over-the-Life-of-a-Program-Evidence-from-an-Education-Conditional-Cash-Transfer-Program-for-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33102 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9094 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 South Asia Pakistan |
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REGRESSIVE DISCONTINUITY STUDY CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER EDUCATION GENDER SECONDARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT LITERACY Chhabra, Esha Najeeb, Fatima Raju, Dhushyanth Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls |
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While most evaluations of education
programs in developing countries examine effects one or two
years after a program has been introduced, this study does
so over an extended duration of a program. Administered in
Punjab, Pakistan, the program offers cash benefits to
households conditional on girls' regular attendance in
secondary grades in government schools. The study evaluates
the evolution of the program's effects on girls'
secondary school enrollment numbers over roughly a decade of
its existence. The program was targeted to districts with
low adult literacy rates, a targeting mechanism that
provides an observed, numerical program assignment variable
and results in a cutoff value. Recent advances in regression
discontinuity designs allow the study to appropriately fit
key features of the data. The study finds that the program
had positive effects on girls’ secondary school enrollment
numbers throughout the period and that these effects were
stable. This pattern is observed despite a loss of more than
60 percent in the real value of the cash benefit over the
period. The findings are consistent with potential
behavioral explanations, such as the program making
girls' education salient to households or catalyzing a
shift in social norms around girls' education. |
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Chhabra, Esha Najeeb, Fatima Raju, Dhushyanth |
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Chhabra, Esha Najeeb, Fatima Raju, Dhushyanth |
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Chhabra, Esha |
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Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls |
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Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls |
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Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls |
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Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls |
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Effects over the Life of a Program : Evidence from an Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Girls |
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effects over the life of a program : evidence from an education conditional cash transfer program for girls |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/964631576770163170/Effects-over-the-Life-of-a-Program-Evidence-from-an-Education-Conditional-Cash-Transfer-Program-for-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33102 |
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