This paper on Bangladesh's Female Secondary School Assistance Project (FSSAP) illustrates another successful example of providing monetary incentives for girls to reduce the direct cost of schooling and to encourage participation.
Private schooling –often postulated to improve school quality– may also prove to be a means to leverage public funds in order to provide access to schooling at rates faster than those possible with public funds alone. This study measures the impact of such an effort to stimulate girls' schooling through the creation of private girls’ schools in poor urban neighborhoods of Quetta, Pakistan.
This study examines the incentives for municipalities and private schools to participate in a national voucher program. The findings demonstrate that heterogeneity across municipalities and across private schools affect the degree to which vouchers increase enrollment and school quality for poor children.
This paper analyzes the implications community participation has on education and examines World Bank practices related to community participation in education.
This paper measures the effects of decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools on student outcomes. Using the example of El Salvador’s Community-Managed Schools Program it compares student achievement on standardized tests and school attendance of rural students in EDUCO schools versus those who are in traditional schools.
This study focuses on parents’ participation in school management and its effects on schooling outcomes, including achievement, attendance, and repetition and dropout rates.
A single post-intervention cross-sectional household survey was used to identify the impact of the program on school attendance, using geographic placement at the village level as an instrument for individual program placement. To deal with bias from the endogeneity of village selection, this evaluation relies on a detailed community survey coordinated with the household survey to control for likely sources of heterogeneity in geographic influences on school attendance, consistent with prior information on how the government targeted the program geographically.
PROGRESA might have impact on children's cognitive achievement through a number of channels, some of which are relatively short run and others are relatively longer run. This paper evaluates the short-run effects on children's cognitive achievements of PROGRESA as measured by child achievement test scores.
This study assesses how the Progresa Program (Education, Health and Food Program of Mexico) has affected the attendance rate of Mexican children enrolled in school during the programs first year of operation, 1998/1999.
This document summarizes 24 months of extensive research by the International Food Policy Research Institute designed to evaluate whether PROGRESA has been successful at achieving its goals. The evaluation analyzes what has been the impact of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives.
