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Assessing the Impact of District Primary Education Program in India
Author(s) -
Azam Mehtabul,
Saing Chan Hang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12281
Subject(s) - primary education , primary (astronomy) , exploit , school district , difference in differences , significant difference , demographic economics , socioeconomics , economic growth , psychology , political science , mathematics education , economics , econometrics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , physics , computer security , astronomy
We examine the impact of India's District Primary Education Program ( DPEP ) introduced in the mid‐1990s. We exploit the fact that the DPEP was targeted towards primary school age children and was introduced in phases to different districts in India, and many of the districts never got the program to implement a difference‐in‐difference strategy to find the causal impact of the program on probability of attended primary school, probability of completed primary education and years of schooling. We find that the DPEP program increased the probability of attended primary school and completed primary school by about 2 percentage points. Similarly, the program increased the years of schooling by 0.16 years.