Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan

Musaddiq, Tareena; Said, Farah

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106115

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“…In many instances, young girls face higher risks of disease and hunger, male dominance and gender-based violence, and remain over-represented among school dropouts; this is especially true for the poorest girls 55–57. As such, ensuring the retention of adolescent girls at schools may yield large education and health benefits, along with possibly preventing multiple harmful consequences (eg, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, early marriage and ensuing financial vulnerability17 58–62).…”

Section: Multisectoral Returns Of School-based Programmesmentioning

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Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Verguet,

Gautam,

Ali

et al. 2023

BMJ Glob Health

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Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these policies frequently operate in silos, the education sphere can operate as a cross-sectoral link. Schools represent a unique locus, with globally hundreds of millions of children attending class every day. A high-profile policy example is school feeding, with over 400 million students worldwide receiving meals in schools. The benefits of harmonising interventions across sectors with a common delivery platform include economies of scale. Moreover, economic evaluation frameworks commonly used to assess policies rarely account for impact across sectors besides their primary intent. For example, school meals are often evaluated for their impact on nutrition, but they also have educational benefits, including increasing attendance and learning and incorporating smallholder farmers into corporate value chains. To address these gaps, we propose the introduction of a comprehensive value-for-money framework for investments toward school systems that acknowledges the return to a common delivery platform—schools—and the multisectoral returns (eg, education, health and nutrition, labour, social protection) emerging from the rollout of school-based programmes. Directly building on benefit-cost analysis methods, this framework could help identify interventions that yield the highest gains in human capital per budget expenditure, with direct implications for finance ministries. Given the detrimental impact of COVID-19 on schoolchildren and human capital, it is urgent to build back stronger and more sustainable welfare systems.

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Section: Multisectoral Returns Of School-based Programmesmentioning

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Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Verguet,

Gautam,

Ali

et al. 2023

BMJ Glob Health

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“…Likewise, around 55% of female secondary school-age youths are out of school (EPDC, 2018;World Bank, n.d.). As discussed by Duflo et al (2021) and Musaddiq & Said (2023) the need to focus on the completion of educational levels is becoming more policy-relevant as the primary school enrollment rate in developing countries approaches 100%. As a result, we focus on the completion of primary and secondary school as the main educational attainment indicators and support our indicators with additional indicators as a robustness check.…”

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Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan

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Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

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