种姓
出勤
社会经济学
分布(数学)
人口学
自由状态
人口经济学
医学
地理
经济
经济增长
数学
社会学
政治学
数学分析
法学
经济史
作者
Sumit Agarwal,Liu Ee Chia,Pulak Ghosh
摘要
Abstract Using a staggered installation of sanitary pad vending machines across schools in the Indian state of Kerala, we study the impacts of free monthly access to sanitary pads on girls' educational outcomes. We find that the number of dropouts among female students in the 7th-grade decrease by 24 percentage points and the attendance rate increases by 23 percentage points after the treatment. Our results are mainly driven by girls in backward-caste, rural schools, and public schools, supporting the idea that free distribution of sanitary pads alleviates cost of obtaining sanitary pads.
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