Does Gender-Based Awareness Campaign Improve Girls' Educational and Learning Outcomes? Empirical Evidence from India.
In 2015, the Government of India launched Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP), a flagship gender-based awareness campaign program, to promote girls' survival and education in India. The existing literature has a dearth of rigorous empirical evidence on the impact of this program on girls' well-being. Thi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 60; no. 11; pp. 1774 - 1793 |
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