Adapting the Supply of Education to the Needs of Girls: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Rural India
评估了印度一项为公立学校提供专项资金以满足女孩特殊需求的大规模政府计划（NPEGEL/KGBV）的效果，发现该计划使农村小学高年级女孩的入学率提高了约6-7个百分点。
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a large-scale government initiative (NPEGEL/KGBV) that provided earmarked funds for addressing girls’ special needs to public schools in rural India. Our empirical strategy exploits local variation in program eligibility around a threshold based on the female literacy rate at the community level. The main result is that the program led to an enrollment gain of about six to seven percentage points for girls in upper primary school. Evidence of an enrollment gain for boys is tentative. Available evidence on mechanisms suggests that the program improved girl-friendly school infrastructure and services as well as gender-neutral school resources.