The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access

• Tác giả: Trung X Hoang
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 376.64 [Unassigned]
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 314080
• Chủ đề: 1. DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCE; 2. EDUCATION; 3. LITERACY; 4. LONG-TERM IMPACT; 5. WAR

Tóm tắt

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.