Despite progress in recent decades, a substantial fraction of children in developing countries attain little schooling, and many adults lack skills that are valued in the labor market. We evaluate the medium-term effects of a program that provided scholarships for three years to poor children upon graduation from elementary school in Cambodia, a low-income country. To do this we use a sharp regression discontinuity design. We show that scholarships...
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The Medium-Term Effects of Scholarships in a Low-Income Country
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Filmer,Deon P.; Schady,Norbert Rudiger.
The Medium-Term Effects of Scholarships in a Low-Income Country (English). Author accepted manuscript; Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099507311252294986