A Vaccination for Education: Early Childhood Development Programme and the Education of Older Girls in Rural India
研究印度最大的儿童发展项目提供的托儿服务是否通过减少照料成本缩小了性别教育差距，发现当6-14岁女孩的0-5岁弟弟妹妹密集接受项目服务时，女孩比男孩上学的可能性高至少三个百分点。
Girls lag behind boys in education in India and relatively more provide childcare at home. This paper investigates whether provision of childcare services by India’s largest child development programme narrows the gender education gap by reducing childcare costs. Using logit, village fixed effects and mother fixed effects, I find that girls 6–14 years old, whose younger sibling 0–5 years old is receiving any of the programme services intensely, are at least three percentage points more likely to be in school than similar boys. Further, I find that these girls are also more likely to complete early primary grades than boys.