Data and code for: Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Domain:
educationsocioeconomicRecord type:
dataset
Creator:
DufDupSpeWal
Publisher:
ICP
Host:
We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income context, leveraging a randomized controlled trial and 15-year longitudinal follow-up. Secondary school scholarships delay fertility, reduce unwanted pregnancies and change partner selection. Under-one mortality is reduced by half. We also document cognitive development gains of 0.24 standard deviations of test scores by age 5 among children of female scholarship recipients.
For the scholarship recipients:
The scholarship study sampled students who had been offered a spot to start SHS in Fall 2008 but had not yet enrolled (usually due to financial constraints) by the end of the fall quarter
For the children of scholarship recipients:
Beginning in June 2017, we administered the child cognitive tests and caregiver surveys whenever children in the sample entered the targeted age windows. To be eligible, the child had to be a biological child of an initial scholarship-lottery participant.
Senior High School Students in Ghana. computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI);
For the scholarship recipients:
The scholarship study sampled students who had been offered a spot to start SHS in Fall 2008 but had not yet enrolled (usually due to financial constraints) by the end of the fall quarter
For the children of scholarship recipients:
Beginning in June 2017, we administered the child cognitive tests and caregiver surveys whenever children in the sample entered the targeted age windows. To be eligible, the child had to be a biological child of an initial scholarship-lottery participant.
Senior High School Students in Ghana. computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI);