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Title | The medium-term impact of the primary education stipend in rural Bangladesh |
Author | Baulch, Bob |
ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1977-5802 Baulch, Robert |
Year | 2010 |
Abstract | This paper investigates the long-term impact of Bangladesh's Primary Education Stipend (PES) program on a range of individual and household welfare measures using a unique longitudinal study spanning the years 2000 to 2006. Using covariate and propensity score matching and difference-in-difference methods, the program is shown to have negligible impacts on school enrollments, household expenditures, calorie consumption, and protein consumption. At the individual level, the PES has a negative impact on grade progression, especially among boys from poor households who are ineligible to receive stipends at the secondary level. The program does, however, lead to improvements in height for age among girls and body mass index among boys. Nonetheless, the impacts of the PES are remarkably small for a program of its size. Poor targeting combined, in particular the program's limited coverage and lack of geographical targeting, plus the declining real value of the stipend are the most plausible reasons for this lack of impact. |
Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
Series Number | 976 |
Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
Language | English |
Record Type | Discussion paper |
Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
Subject - country location |
BANGLADESH SOUTH ASIA ASIA |
Subject - keywords |
conditional cash transfers primary education Primary Education Stipend (PES) program Household expenditures geographical targeting Education Gender |
IFPRI Descriptors | IFPRI1 |
IFPRI Division | PHND |
Access Rights | Open Access |
Display Notes | Effective January 2007, the Discussion Paper series within each division and the Director General's Office of IFPRI were merged into one IFPRI-wide Discussion Paper series. The new series begins with number 00689, reflecting the prior publication of 688 discussion papers within the dispersed series. The earlier series are available on IFPRI's website at http://www.ifpri.org/publications/results/taxonomy%3A468. IFPRI Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI's Publications Review Committee but have been reviewed by at least one internal and/or external reviewer. They are circulated in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. |
LOC call number | IFPRIDP00976 |
Physical description | 24 pages |
IFPRI Web link | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/medium-term-impact-primary-education-stipend-rural-bangladesh |
RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/976.html |
Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
CONTENTdm file name | 1858.cpd |
Date cataloged | 2016-09-07 |
Date modified | 2016-09-07 |
OCLC number | 778451998 |
CONTENTdm number | 1857 |
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Title | ifpridp00976 4 |
Access Rights | Open Access |
Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
CONTENTdm file name | 1829.pdfpage |
Date cataloged | 2011-06-15 |
Date modified | 2011-06-15 |
CONTENTdm number | 1828 |
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