Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning and Gender Equity: Evidence from India

The Sustainable Advancement Goals established a triple educational objective: enhance obtain to, high-quality of, and gender fairness in education. This paper documents the efficiency of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three targets simultaneously. Making use of an experiment in 229 faculties in rural Rajasthan (India), the study measures the consequences of the program on students’ school participation and educational effectiveness in excess of two several years, while also inspecting heterogeneous impacts across gender and first learning potential. It finds that the program enhanced scholar enrollment, with the most significant consequences amid women (7.2 per cent in the very first yr, 12.eight per cent in the next). There ended up significant learning gains of .329 standard deviations (SDs) in the very first yr and .206 SDs at the end of the next yr. The learning element of the intervention qualified both equally boys and women — boys and women benefited similarly from the program in terms of check score gains.