PANKAJ NAGENDRA
Humanities
May 2022
The impact of India's District Primary Education Program (DPEP), which was implemented in the mid-1990s, is examined. We take advantage of the fact that the DPEP was designed for primary-aged children and was introduced in phases to different districts across India, with many districts never receiving the programme, to use a difference-in-difference strategy to determine the program's causal impact on the likelihood of enrolling in primary school, the likelihood of completing primary education, and the number of years spent in school. We discovered that the DPEP programme raised the likelihood of children attending primary school by 2.1 percentage points and increased the likelihood of children finishing primary school by roughly 1.8 percentage points. Similarly, the initiative raised the overall number of years spent in school by 0.16.
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