Can Dialogues Around Girls' Education Improve Academic Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Development Project

Christopher Cotton, Ardyn Nordstrom, Jordan Nanowski and Eric Richert

No 1492, Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: We evaluate the impact of deliberative dialogues about girls' education with groups of parents, teachers, and girls on the education outcomes of girls in rural Zimbabwe. Dialog-based engagement campaigns increased mathematics performance and school enrolment. In later periods, the program was expanded to provide resources and an updated curriculum. During these later periods, we observed improvements in literacy, but no additional improvements in mathematics and enrolment beyond what was observed following the dialog-based engagement campaign alone. A mediation analysis shows how earlier gains in math performance due to the dialogues are positively associated with later gains in literacy.

Keywords: girls' education challenge; education; development; dialogue; conversations; social norms; gender inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 J16 O12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2022-11
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