The Medium-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Seven-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga, Leigh Linden, Ali Protik and Matt Sloan
Additional contact information
Leigh Linden: University of Texas at Austin
Ali Protik: Mathematica Policy Research
Matt Sloan: Mathematica Policy Research

No 406, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: We evaluate the long-term effect of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to accommodate more grades. After six years, the program increased enrollment by 15.5 percentage points and increased test scores by 0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed about three years earlier, with enrollment declining slightly from 18.5 to 14.9 for the cohorts of children who were exposed to both the first and second phases of the intervention.

Keywords: Africa; Education; Gender Inequality; Infrastructures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 I28 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48
Date: 2016-11-11, Revised 2016-11-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-edu and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.dagliano.unimi.it/media/WP2016_406.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The Medium-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Seven-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Faso (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:csl:devewp:406

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chiara Elli ().