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100	1		_aKazianga, Harounan.
245	1	4	_aThe Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: _bEvidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso / _cHarounan Kazianga, Dan Levy, Leigh L. Linden, Matt Sloan.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w18115
500			_aMay 2012.
520	3		_aWe evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20 percentage points and increased their test scores by 0.45 standard deviations. The change in test scores for those children caused to attend school by the program is 2.2 standard deviations. We also find that the program was particularly effective for girls, increasing their enrollment rate by 5 percentage points more than boys', although this did not translate into a differential effect on test scores. Disentangling the effects of school access from the unique characteristics of the new schools, we find that the unique characteristics were responsible for a 13 percentage point increase in enrollment and 0.35 standard deviations in test scores, while simply providing a school increased enrollment by 26.5 percentage points and test scores by 0.323 standard deviations. The unique characteristics of the school account for the entire difference in the treatment effect by gender.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aI24 - Education and Inequality _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI25 - Education and Economic Development _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI28 - Government Policy _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aO15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aLevy, Dan.
700	1		_aLinden, Leigh L.
700	1		_aSloan, Matt.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w18115.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w18115
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18115
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