Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning and Gender Equity: Evidence from India

The Sustainable Improvement Plans set a triple educational goal: strengthen obtain to, excellent of, and gender equity in schooling. This paper files the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these 3 objectives at the same time. Employing an experiment in 229 schools in rural Rajasthan (India), the review measures the effects of the program on students’ school participation and academic performance in excess of two decades, although also examining heterogeneous impacts across gender and first discovering capability. It finds that the program elevated student enrollment, with the largest effects among the girls (seven.two % in the to start with year, twelve.8 % in the next). There were substantial discovering gains of .329 standard deviations (SDs) in the to start with year and .206 SDs at the conclusion of the next year. The discovering ingredient of the intervention specific both equally boys and girls — boys and girls benefited equally from the program in terms of check score gains.