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

The Sustainable Progress Aims established a triple instructional objective: improve entry to, high quality of, and gender equity in education and learning. This paper documents the success of a multifaceted instructional method, pursuing these 3 targets simultaneously. Working with an experiment in 229 colleges in rural Rajasthan (India), the examine measures the results of the method on students’ school participation and tutorial functionality about two a long time, though also examining heterogeneous impacts throughout gender and original studying potential. It finds that the method improved university student enrollment, with the greatest results amongst girls (7.two per cent in the initial 12 months, twelve.8 per cent in the second). There were being massive studying gains of .329 regular deviations (SDs) in the initial 12 months and .206 SDs at the close of the second 12 months. The studying component of the intervention focused both equally boys and girls — boys and girls benefited similarly from the method in terms of take a look at rating gains.