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Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

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dc.contributor.authorFilmer, Deon
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:34:17Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:34:17Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIncreasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. In this study, we evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. We show that the scholarship program increased the enrollment and attendance of recipients at program schools by about 30 percentage points. Larger impacts are found among girls with the lowest socioeconomic status at baseline. The results are robust to a variety of controls for observable differences between scholarship recipients and nonrecipients, to unobserved heterogeneity across girls, and to selective transfers between program schools and other schools. We conclude that there is substantial potential for demand-side interventions in lower-income countries like Cambodia.en
dc.identifier.citationEconomic Development and Cultural Change
dc.identifier.issn00130079
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5737
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectAnalysis of Education I210
dc.subjectEducation: Government Policy I280
dc.subjectEconomics of Gender
dc.subjectNon-labor Discrimination J160
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.titleGetting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodiaen
dc.title.alternativeEconomic Development and Cultural Changeen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum717
okr.journal.nbpages581-617
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryCambodia
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okr.volume56
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