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Moving up a Gear: Can a free bike help a girl’s education in northern India?

Video 2 Oct 2019 State and Women's Economic Empowerment

In 2006, the government of Bihar introduced a scheme that aimed to improve school access and reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls with a bicycle.

This 2012 video - updated for our IGC10 campaign - looks at the results of an IGC study that evaluated the scheme.

Authors

Karthik Muralidharan

Associate Professor of Economics, University of California - San Diego

Nishith Prakash

Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

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