Community Campaigns to Improve Attitudes towards Girls' Education Can Increase Math Scores and Enrollment
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Girls’ Education Challenge; education; empowerment; information provision; impact evaluation; economic development; field experiment; multifaceted intervention;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2020-03-16 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2020-03-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ORE-2020-03-16 (Operations Research)
- NEP-URE-2020-03-16 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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