Source: Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India, By Karthik Muralidharan and Nishith Prakash

 

1.What is the research question of this paper?

 

2.Describe the empirical methodology used to answer this research question

 

3.The authors present many potential problems in measuring the impact of the Cycle program. Discuss three of these problems and how the authors address them?

 

4.The authors used school enrollment of boys ages 14 to 17 as a control group in their triple difference estimate. Explain how this was useful in measuring the impact of the Cycle program on girls.

 

5.What is the assumption that is required to interpret the estimated effect as causal?

 

6.Aside from increased school enrollment, what other benefits of implementing the Cycle program do the authors observe in India?