The Net Impact of the Female Secondary School Stipend Program in Bangladesh

Nobuhiko Fuwa

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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of the secondary school stipend program for female students on student enrolment in Bangladesh. After a brief description of the stipend program, we examine both nationwide and project-level data on student enrolment. While the former data show little identifiable impact of the stipend program, the project-level data show significant positive impact of the program. We find that, on average, the stipend program increased female student enrolment by 2% above the prevailing trend rate of increase while the program had significantly negative impact on male enrolment. Thus the program had a major effect in closing the gender gap, thereby accelerating the trend that had already existed in Bangladesh before the stipend program was introduced in 1994.

Keywords: conditional cash transfer; impact evaluation; female education; stipend; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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