Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

By D. Filmer, Norbert R. Schady. Economic development and cultural change, 2006

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Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. In this study we evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. We show that the scholarship program increased the enrollment and attendance of recipients at program schools by about 30 percentage points. Larger impacts are found among girls with the lowest socioeconomic status at baseline. The results are robust to a variety of controls for observable differences between scholarship recipients and nonrecipients, to unobserved heterogeneity across girls, and to selective transfers between program schools and other schools. We conclude that there is substantial potential for demand‐side interventions in lower‐income countries like Cambodia.

Subfields: Demography, Education, Safety Research

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The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil (2012, background): “Khandker, Pitt and Fuwa (2003) found that a CCT program in Bangladesh increased enrolment for 11-18 year old girls, while Filmer and Schady (2006), estimated that the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction program in Cambodia increased secondary school girls’ enrolment and attendance.”
The Heterogeneous Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers (2013, background): “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 For a review of theory and evidence, see Fiszbein and Schady (2009). For related empirical evidence, see Maluccio and Flores (2005), Filmer and Schady (2008), and Oosterbeek et al.”
Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in the Gambia (2016, unknown): “Several other studies have evaluated similar programs targeting girls (Kim et al. 1999a, 1999b, and Chaudhury and Parajuli 2010 for Pakistan; Filmer and Schady 2008 for Cambodia; Kremer et al. 2009 for Kenya; Baird et al. 2011 for Malawi; Begum et al. 2012 for Bangladesh; and the previously mentione”
Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database (2010, unknown): “(Filmer and Schady, 2006).”
Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor (2008, result): “These findings are consistent with a growing literature that has documented that cash and in-kind transfers can reduce child work and increase school enrollment (e.g. Attanasio et al. 2006; Edmonds 2006; Filmer and Schady 2008; Ravallion and Wodon 1998; Schultz 2004).”
Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis (2017, unknown): “For Cambodia’s CESSP program, for instance Filmer and Schady (2011) find that, relatively to children in observationally similar households receiving a smaller transfer, children in households receiving a larger transfer showed similar enrollment improvements.”
Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty (2009, unknown): “…1569 долл. сШа (2006) Коэффициент бедности при черте бедности в 2 долл. сШа в день 77,7% (1997) Образование Чистый охват населения начальным образованием Всего: 89,9% (2006); 89% девочки, 90,9% мальчики Чистый охват населения средним образованием Всего: 23,9% (2005) 21,9% девочки, 26%…”
Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “23 The poorer the beneficiaries, the larger the program’s impact (Behrman et al., 2005; Filmer & Schady, 2011; Glewwe & Olinto, 2004; Maluccio & Flores, 2005; Oosterbeek et al., 2008).”
Examining Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : A Role for Increased Social Inclusion? (2006, background): “4 In Cambodia the pilot scholarship (Filmer and Schady, 2006) and in Bangladesh, the Female Stipend Program (Khandker, Pitt and Fuwa, 2003) only cover secondary school girls.”
Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “3 2009) or whether there is a supply-side intervention (Filmer and Schady, 2009b; Glewwe and Olinto, 2004) explain certain patterns of treatment effect heterogeneity. No study to date, however, integrates quantitatively and in a systematic manner the available evidence on the effects of CCT programs”
Low-cost private schools for the poor: what public policy is appropriate (2014, background): “Other recent female-focused private initiatives and research include the stipend program for girls in Bangladesh (Raynor and Wesson, 2006), a scholarship program in Cambodia (Filmer and Schady, 2008) and 2 While the land requirement precludes private school owners from registering schools with the M”