Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (English)

This paper reports on a randomized experiment to investigate the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. In 2008, fourth-grade students in 207 randomly assigned schools (103 treatment, 104 control) received scholarships based on the students' academic performance in math and language or their level of poverty. Three years after the program's inception, an evaluation showed that both types of scholarship recipients...

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Barrera-Osorio,Felipe;

De Barros,Andreas;

Filmer,Deon P.;
Document Date
2018/08/23
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8566
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Cambodia,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2018/08/23
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia
Keywords
cognitive skill

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Barrera-Osorio,Felipe; De Barros,Andreas; Filmer,Deon P..

Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (English). Impact Evaluation series|Paper is funded by the Strategic Research Program (SRP)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8566 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/838871535033752683

Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (English)

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