The Medium-Term Effects of Scholarships in a Low-Income Country
利用断点回归设计评估柬埔寨小学毕业贫困生三年奖学金项目的中期影响，发现奖学金显著提高了受教育年限，但对考试成绩、就业、收入及青少年婚姻生育无显著效应。
Despite progress in recent decades, a substantial fraction of children in developing countries attain little schooling, and many adults lack skills that are valued in the labor market. We evaluate the medium-term effects of a program that provided scholarships for three years to poor children upon graduation from elementary school in Cambodia, a low-income country. To do this we use a sharp regression discontinuity design. We show that scholarships have substantial effects on school attainment. By the time children would have been in grade 11 had they remained in school, two years after they stopped being eligible for scholarships, those who were offered scholarships have attained 0.6 more grades of completed schooling. Nevertheless, we find no evidence that scholarships had significant effects on test scores, employment, earnings, or the probability of getting married or having a child in adolescence.