What We Learn about Girls' Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls

Yuan, F (通讯作者),Harvard Grad Sch Educ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
2022-2-2
What is the best way to improve access and learning outcomes for girls? This review brings together evidence from 267 educational interventions in 54 low- and middle-income countries - regardless of whether the interventions specifically target girls - and identifies their impacts on girls. To improve access and learning, general interventions deliver average gains for girls that are comparable to girl-targeted interventions. General interventions have similar impacts for girls as for boys. Taken together, these findings suggest that many educational gains for girls may be achieved through nontargeted programs. Many of the most effective interventions to improve access for girls relax household-level constraints (such as cash transfer programs), and many of the most effective interventions to improve learning for girls involve improving the pedagogy of teachers. Girl-targeted interventions may make the most sense when addressing constraints that are unique to, or most pronounced for, girls.
WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW
卷号:36|期号:1|页码:244-267
ISSN:0258-6770|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
Harvard University
资助信息
The order of authors was determined alphabetically. The research for this article was financed by Echidna Giving, the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality at the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The authors thank Eric Edmonds, Deon Filmer, Erin Ganju, Markus Goldstein, Pamela Jakiela, Oni Lusk-Stover, Mary Obelnicki, Owen Ozier, Pauline Rose, Dana Schmidt, Craig Silverstein, Lexie Wagner, Kim Wright-Violich, Louise Yorke, and various seminar audiences and anonymous referees for feedback and suggestions. The authors also thank Amina Mendez Acosta, Tara Siegel, Danielle Sobol, and Shikhty Sunny for excellent research assistance. A supplementary online appendix is available with this article at The World Bank Economic Review website.
被引频次(WOS)
6
被引频次(其他)
6
180天使用计数
1
2013以来使用计数
3
EISSN
1564-698X
出版年
2022-2-2
DOI
10.1093/wber/lhab007
关键词
education girls effect size impact evaluation economic development
资助机构
Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality at the World Bank Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationCGIAR)
WOS学科分类
Business, Finance Development Studies Economics
学科领域
循证经济学 循证社会学