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Can Dialogues Around Girls' Education Improve Academic Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Development Project

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  • Christopher Cotton

    (Queen's University)

  • Ardyn Nordstrom

    (Carleton University)

  • Jordan Nanowski
  • Eric Richert

    (University of Chicago (Princeton University Post-Doctoral Fellow))

Abstract

We evaluate the impact of deliberative dialogues about girls' education with groups of parents, teachers, and girls on the education outcomes of girls in rural Zimbabwe. Dialog-based engagement campaigns increased mathematics performance and school enrolment. In later periods, the program was expanded to provide resources and an updated curriculum. During these later periods, we observed improvements in literacy, but no additional improvements in mathematics and enrolment beyond what was observed following the dialog-based engagement campaign alone. A mediation analysis shows how earlier gains in math performance due to the dialogues are positively associated with later gains in literacy.

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  • Christopher Cotton & Ardyn Nordstrom & Jordan Nanowski & Eric Richert, 2022. "Can Dialogues Around Girls' Education Improve Academic Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Development Project," Working Paper 1492, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    • Handle: RePEc:qed:wpaper:1492
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    Keywords

    girls' education challenge; education; development; dialogue; conversations; social norms; gender inequality;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of 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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