The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access
Very few studies currently exist on the long-term impacts of schooling policies in developing countries. This paper examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school-age children who were exposed to the program obtained significantly higher levels of education than their peers who were residing in French-occupied areas. The impacts are statistically significant for school-age girls and not for school-age boys. The analysis finds beneficial spillover and inter-generational impacts of education: affected girls enjoyed higher household living standards, had more educated spouses, and raised more educated children. The paper discusses various robustness checks and extensions that support these findings.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018-06
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| Subjects: | EDUCATION, LITERACY, DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCE, LONG-TERM IMPACT, WAR, SCHOOL POLICY, MASS EDUCATION, GENDER, INTER-GENERATIONAL IMPACT, LIVING STANDARDS, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/442851529499024711/The-long-run-and-gender-equalizing-impacts-of-school-access-evidence-from-the-first-Indochina-war https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29933 |
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