| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19305 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19305 |
| Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India | |
| Karthik Muralidharan; Nishith Prakash | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-08-16 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar 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, we employ a triple difference approach (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%. Parametric and non-parametric decompositions of the triple-difference estimate as a function of distance to the nearest secondary school show that the increases in enrollment mostly took place in villages where the nearest secondary school was further away, suggesting that the mechanism for program impact was the reduction in the time and safety cost of school attendance made possible by the bicycle. We find that the Cycle program was much more cost effective at increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated provision of bicycles to girls may have generated externalities beyond the cash value of the program, including improved safety from girls cycling to school in groups, and changes in patriarchal social norms that proscribed female mobility outside the village, which inhibited female secondary school participation. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19305 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576994 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karthik Muralidharan,Nishith Prakash. Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India. 2013. |
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