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Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Elizabeth Spelke; Mark P. Walsh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income context, leveraging a randomized controlled trial and 15-year longitudinal follow-up. For young women, receiving a scholarship for secondary school delays childbearing and marriage, and reduces unwanted pregnancies. Female scholarship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Scholarships, Program Effectiveness
Williams, James H.; Leherr, Kay – 1998
As increasing numbers of children in developing nations survive to school age, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers are increasingly focusing on the health and well-being of school-age children and on the possibility of using the infrastructure of the school system to deliver health and nutrition interventions. This research, conducted in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Child Health, Children