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MacArthur Girls' Secondary Education Initiative: Bridging Knowledge Gaps

The MacArthur Girls' Secondary Education Initiative seeks to improve access to quality secondary education for girls in India, Uganda, and Nigeria. Through a research review conducted by J-PAL, the initiative aims to identify effective strategies on both the demand and supply side of education. The review explores various factors that affect enrollment, including cash incentives, information provision, exposure to role models, and more. The knowledge gaps identified span topics like best practices for information dissemination, tracking attendance in challenging contexts, the impact of female teachers, public vs. private education, pedagogy, vocational training, and support for disadvantaged students. To bridge these gaps, the J-PAL PPE Initiative will fund randomized evaluations over 3 to 5 years to inform innovative practices in secondary education.

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MacArthur Girls' Secondary Education Initiative: Bridging Knowledge Gaps

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  1. Outline MacArthur Girls’ Secondary Education Initiative J-PAL Research Review Bridging Knowledge Gaps

  2. MacArthur Girls’ Secondary Ed • Access to quality, relevant secondary education • Focus on girls • India, Uganda, Nigeria

  3. J-PAL Research Review • J-PAL Poverty Action Lab - MIT • Team led by Abhijit Banerjee • Reviewed 42 rigorous papers with experimental design • Examined demand and supply side issues

  4. Demand Side • Households respond to cash incentives to attend school • Cost of school matters • Providing credit for school also increases enrollments • Providing information about the benefits of education raises enrollments • Exposure to female role models increases educational attainment for girls

  5. Supply Side • We know much less about what works in the classroom • At a school management level • And for vocational, technical and worker training

  6. Knowledge Gaps • Demand Side • How best to provide info on returns to education? • Can CCTs work where attendance hard to track? • Female teachers? • Supply Side • Public vs. Private? • ICT? • Pedagogy? • Teacher performance incentives? • Mother tongue instruction? • Vocational, technical and workforce training? • Support for girls, disadvantaged, and dropouts?

  7. Bridging the Gaps • J-PAL PPE Initiative • $5 million fund over 3 to 5 years • 20-25 randomized evaluations • spur new generation of research • “Strengthening Innovation & Practice in Secondary Ed” • MacArthur • MasterCard Foundation • Wellspring Advisors • Elma Philanthropies • Douglas B. Marshall Jr. Family Foundation

  8. Please reach out • Milena Novy-Marx, MacArthur Foundation • mnovymar@macfound.org • (312) 516 - 1654 • Shawn Powers, Policy Manager, J-PAL • smpowers@MIT.edu • (617) 324 - 4856

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