Adapting the Supply of Education to the Needs of Girls: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Rural India

Marian Meller and Stephan Litschig

No 805, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a large-scale government initiative (NPEGEL/KGBV) that provided earmarked funds for addressing girlsÂ’special needs to public schools in rural India. Our empirical strategy exploits local variation in program eligibility around a threshold based on the female literacy rate at the community level. The main result is that the program led to an enrollment gain of about 6-7 percentage points for girls in upper primary school. Evidence of an enrollment gain for boys is tentative. Available evidence on mechanisms suggests that the program improved girl-friendly school infrastructure and services, as well as gender-neutral school resources.

Keywords: Gender Gap; regression discontinuity; school resources; girls' education; school enrollment; impact evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I21 I28 J16 O15 O22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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