Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education

Last registered on July 15, 2020

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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title

Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education

RCT ID

AEARCTR-0003942

Initial registration date

February 22, 2019

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published

February 24, 2019, 7:37 PM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated

July 15, 2020, 6:12 PM EDT

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Country

Tanzania, United Republic of

Region

Primary Investigator

Name

Ketki Sheth

Affiliation

UC Merced

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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name

SK Tariquzzaman

PI Affiliation

BRAC

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Additional Trial Information

Status

In development

Start date

2019-02-15

End date

2021-12-31

Keywords

Education

Additional Keywords

JEL code(s)

Secondary IDs

Abstract

Using an individual level randomization, we evaluate an alternative education program targeted at girls who have dropped out of secondary school in Tanzania.

External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation

Sheth, Ketki and SK Tariquzzaman. 2020. "Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education." AEA RCT Registry. July 15. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.3942-1.2000000000000002

Former Citation

Sheth, Ketki and SK Tariquzzaman. 2020. "Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education." AEA RCT Registry. July 15. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3942/history/72535

Sponsors & Partners

Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

Intervention Start Date

2019-02-15

Intervention End Date

2021-04-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

1) Engagement with mainstream education; 2) Cognitive Skills; 3) Labor market outcomes; 4) Psychosocial well-being; 5) Risky behaviors, and 6) Aspirations

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

1. Engagement with mainstream education is measured by participation in exit exams, enrollment in formal education, and enrollment in any educational programs that prepares a person for formal education.
4. Psycho-social well-being: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
6. Aspirations: Expectations on earning an income, expectations on age of marriage.

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

We will use an individual level randomization stratified on 25 center locations. Specifically, we created a list of interested girls in each of the 25 program center areas. These girls were then interviewed and narrowed to approximately 30 to 40 girls per center. Due to limited space in each center, only 20 girls can be selected for the program. Therefore, from this narrowed list, we randomly select 20 girls for each center.

Not all girls accepted the offer. As a result, we randomized the control sample in each 25 center, to randomly select an additional subset of girls to be offered the program.

Experimental Design Details

Randomization Method

Randomization done in office by a computer

Randomization Unit

individuals

Was the treatment clustered?

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

970 individuals

Sample size: planned number of observations

970 individuals

Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms

651 individuals in treatment (offered program); 319 individuals in control (not offered program).

Originally, we had 500 in treatment and 470 in the control - our updated numbers reflect that a random subset of the control was offered the program after this initial selection.

Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)

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