Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Burde, Dana; Linden, Leigh L.
署名单位：
New York University; Columbia University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research
刊物名称：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
1945-7782
DOI：
10.1257/app.5.3.27
发表日期：
2013
页码：
27-40
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摘要：
We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment and test scores among all children, but particularly for girls. Girls' enrollment increases by 52 percentage points and their average test scores increase by 0.65 standard deviations. The effect is large enough that it eliminates the gender gap in enrollment and dramatically reduces differences in test scores. Boys' enrollment increases by 35 percentage points, and average test scores increase by 0.40 standard deviations. (JEL I21, J16, O15, O18)
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