Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools

By D. Burde, Leigh L. Linden. 2013

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Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in the Gambia (2016, unknown): “A similar, but experimental, study that brought community schools to Afghan villagers found equally large effects on both enrollment and test scores (Burde and Linden 2013).”
Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women (2015, unknown): “…2007) and extrapolation from our data and national surveys suggest that around fifteen percent of women nationwide between the 1 See, for instance, Burde & Linden (2013) on building schools, Duflo et al. (2011) on decreasing class size and tracking, Duflo et al. (2012) on rewarding teachers for…”
Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “Indeed, there is a rich literature in development that finds large positive effects of school construction on children’s school enrollment and attendance (Duflo, 2001; Aaronson and Mazumder, 2013; Burde and Linden, 2013; Kazianga et al., 2013).”
Improving Education in Developing Countries (2016, background): “Burde and Linden (2013) found that the construction of village-based schools (i.e., schools serving only children in the neighboring area) in Ghor, Afghanistan, in 2007 not only increased girls’ enrollment in schools by 52 percentage points, it also improved their math and language test scores by…”
Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School (2012, methodology): “The idea of holdout samples for validation has been used in several papers, starting with at least McFadden and Talvitie (1977) (see Keane, Todd, and Wolpin 2011). A smaller number of papers use randomized control experiments to validate a structural model. Wise (1985) estimates a model of housing d”
What Works to Improve the Quality of Student Learning in Developing Countries (2015, methodology): “For the remaining children in consequently reduced (by half) classes, no gains take place Burde and Linden (2013) Afghanistan (rural); Primary (grade 1–8) Foreign Aid RCT, complemented by IVs estimation 1374 Effect of village-based community-schools provision on test scores and (indirectly) effect…”
The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2015, background): “Burde & Linden (2013) evaluate a school-building initiative in Afghanistan and find that having a school located within one ’ s village matters much more for girls ’ enrollment; a village school essentially closes the otherwise-large gender gap in enrollment.”