Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning and Gender Equity: Evidence from India
通过印度拉贾斯坦邦229所学校的实验，评估了一个多层面教育项目对学生入学率和学习成绩的影响，发现项目显著提高了入学率，尤其对女孩效果更大，同时带来了大幅学习进步，且男女学生受益均等。
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously. Using an experiment in 229 schools in rural Rajasthan (India), the study measures the effects of the program on students’ school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts across gender and initial learning ability. It finds that the program increased student enrollment, with the largest effects among girls (7.2 percent in the first year, 12.8 percent in the second). There were large learning gains of 0.329 standard deviations (SDs) in the first year and 0.206 SDs at the end of the second year. The learning component of the intervention targeted both boys and girls – boys and girls benefited equally from the program in terms of test score gains.