Gender Bias Under Targeted Transfers: Food for Schooling in Bangladesh

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Abstract: Since the creation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), achieving universal education (MDG #2) has grown in popularity. One of the most successful policies addressing the problem of primary schooling came first as a national program in Bangladesh. In 1993, Bangladesh began Food For Schooling (FFS) to address growing issues of poor education and rural poverty. The program drew dramatic success in its targeted dimensions. Student absences decreased, and food security of impoverished households improved. The headline statistic for the first two years of the program was school enrollment. Over this period, primary school enrollment increased 35%, with a much higher rate for girls rather than boys. This success is notable for the raw increase but particularly for the increase in girls over boys. South Asia’s gender bias is well known, which makes this observed favoritism towards girls unusual. This paper analyzes this observed increase. Is there a relationship between the gender bias of school enrollment and the criteria families must meet to be eligible for the FFS program? The families are defined by occupations, employment time, head of household gender, and land assets, and the understanding of such a correlation would carry consequences for targeted transfer programs in other developing countries.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2010

Author	Kropp, Garner
Primary advisor	Klenow, Pete
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	targeted transfers
Subject	Bangladesh
Subject	gender bias
Subject	primary education
Subject	development
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/db217hk5716

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Preferred Citation: Kropp, Garner. (2010). Gender Bias Under Targeted Transfers: Food for Schooling in Bangladesh. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/db217hk5716

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