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Direct linkKazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We 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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Program Evaluation, Elementary Schools
Lu, Fangwen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Health and education are two important issues in developing economies. Field and natural experiments provided me with great opportunities for identifying the effects of health insurance and incentive on doctors' prescribing behaviors and the peer influences among students. The first chapter examines whether doctors write more expensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Incentives
Download full textLevy, Dan; Sloan, Matt; Linden, Leigh; Kazianga, Harounan – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2009
The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso. It focused on girls in particular and was implemented in 132 rural villages throughout the 10 provinces of the country in which girls' enrollment rates were lowest. It consisted of constructing primary schools with three classrooms and implementing a…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Females, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
