Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Karthik Muralidharan and Nishith Prakash

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Abstract: An innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar was introduced that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household survey, a triple difference approach is employed (using boys and the neighboring state of Jharkhand as comparison groups) and find that being in a cohort that was exposed to the Cycle program increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age-appropriate secondary school enrollment by 40%. [BREAD Working Paper No. 397].

Keywords: Conditional transfers; school access; gender gaps; bicycle; girls' education; female empowerment; India; Bihar; MDG; secondary school (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09
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