The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in a patriarchal society. Together with the growing share of the urban population...
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Job opportunities along the rural-urban gradation and female labor force participation in India
Region/Country: India Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2015
Labor market impacts and effectiveness of skills development programs in India
Over the past few years, the Government of India (GOI) has been implementing five large national skills development (SD) programs to improve the employment and earnings prospects of urban and rural...
Non-financial Extrinsic and Intrinsic Teacher Motivation in Government and Private Schools in India (ongoing)
[Impact Evaluation, SIEF] Timeline: 2014- 2017. Evaluation: In India, the rise in enrollment has been accompanied by a steady drop in student achievement: the proportion of third-graders who know...
State systems for skill development in India: a study of Bihar, Gujarat, Rajastha, and Maharashtra
At a time when the World?s leading economies are rapidly greying, India is set to have the largestand youngest workforce the world has ever seen. Indeed, by 2020, when the global shortage ofmanpower...
Technical education in India : living good governance
Governance, at its heart, is related to how an institution measures itself, and how it intends to grow. A well-run institution instills confidence and respect from students, faculty, and the larger...
The role of skills training for youth employment in Nepal : an impact evaluation of the employment fund
[Impact Evaluation] Founded in 2008, the Employment Fund Project (EF) is currently one of the largest youth training initiatives in the country, reaching more than 15,000 youth annually. In...
Community Engagement for School Committees in Pakistan (ongoing)
[Impact Evaluation, SIEF] Timeline: 2012- 2016. Evaluation: In Pakistan, school management committees were designed to empower communities to advocate on behalf of their children?s education, but...
Community engagement mechanisms : field experiment in Pakistan
The overall objective was to elicit and sustain meaningful participation by the community in the management of schools. This could only be possible if the interface was integrated with local...
Investing in the Education Market: Strengthening Private Schools for the Rural Poor (ongoing)
[Impact Evaluation, SIEF] Timeline: January 2012 to June 2016. Evaluation: In developing countries, low-cost private schools often offer better education than public schools. But in Pakistan, several...
Teacher performance pay : Experimental evidence from Pakistan
[Impact Evaluation] This paper presents evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan....
