Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
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Policy-makers have cited menstruation and lack of sanitary products as barriers to girls’ schooling. We evaluate these claims using a randomized evaluation of sanitary products provision to girls in Nepal. We report two findings. First, menstruation has a very small impact on school attendance: we estimate that girls miss a total of 0.4 days in a 180 day school year. Second, improved sanitary technology has no effect on reducing this (small) gap: girls who randomly received sanitary products were no less likely to miss school during their period. We can reject (at the 1% level) the claim that better menstruation products close the attendance gap.
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Online Appendix for Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance
This Appendix provides details and expanded results for our paper, “Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”. In the main paper we present the data and experimental design. Our results show negative, although small, effects of periods on school attendance. We find no significant effect of modern sanitary products on reducing the small effect ...
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