{"id":1799,"date":"2013-10-25T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T10:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2013-10-26T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T10:18:21","slug":"bringing-education-to-afghan-girls-a-randomized-controlled-trial-of-village-based-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2013\/10\/bringing-education-to-afghan-girls-a-randomized-controlled-trial-of-village-based-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dana Burde and Leigh L. Linden *<\/p>\n<p>We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based<br \/>\nschools on children\u2019s academic performance using a sample of 31<br \/>\nvillages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The<br \/>\nprogram significantly increases enrollment and test scores among<br \/>\nall children, but particularly for girls. Girls\u2019 enrollment increases by<br \/>\n52 percentage points and their average test scores increase by 0.65<br \/>\nstandard deviations. The effect is large enough that it eliminates<br \/>\nthe gender gap in enrollment and dramatically reduces differences<br \/>\nin test scores. Boys\u2019 enrollment increases by 35 percentage points,<br \/>\nand average test scores increase by 0.40 standard deviations.<br \/>\n(JEL I21, J16, O15, O18)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/publication\/effect-village-based-schools-evidence-randomized-controlled-trial-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Document\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dana Burde and Leigh L. Linden * We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children\u2019s academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,85,43,11,17,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-human-rights-online-library","category-issues","category-women","category-womens-rights","Documents-conventions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}