CSDE-Supported Summer RA with CSDE Affiliate Isabelle Cohen
Posted: 5/27/2022 (CSDE Research)
General Duties/Description:
The Center for Girls’ Education (CGE) in Abuja, Nigeria provides mentored safe spaces to adolescent girls, aimed at increasing empowerment and improving human capital and health. Northern Nigeria has the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with 80% of adolescent girls married by age 18, and 50% by the age of 15. The Pathways program (2018-2020) focuses on unmarried girls, aged 12-19, who are not currently enrolled in school, with the goal of increasing educational attainment and delaying marriage. The MAS program (on-going) focuses on married adolescents, with goals of improving health services access and introducing the use of birth spacing techniques. In both programs, mentors from similar backgrounds meet with the girls once or twice per week. The mentors provide a combination of literacy and numeracy skills, financial management, support for entrepreneurship, and assistance in accessing and navigating bureaucracies.
This research is focused on a quantitative impact assessment of both programs, using paired cluster-randomized designs. In particular, data has been collected from a 2018 baseline survey and 2020 endline survey for Pathways and is currently being used to analyze the impacts of the program on adolescent girls; early results are promising with regards to delaying marriage and increasing education.
Evans School students and graduate students from other units with demonstrated background in econometric analysis and interest in empowerment are invited to apply for an hourly Graduate Research Student Assistant (GRSA) position. The hourly GRSA will work with a supervisor, Assistant professor Isabelle Cohen, during the summer. This summer hourly position assumes that the student is not enrolled in summer quarter and the hourly rate is commensurate with academic standing, qualifications, and experience.
Successful applicants will have a positive and professional attitude, strong organizational and time management skills, and the willingness to work both independently and collectively in team settings. Attention to detail, critical thinking, the ability to identify, access, interpret, synthesize, and display data and information, and the ability to write clearly and concisely, as well as the ability to accept and integrate constructive feedback on work are also required. Experience with quantitative analysis and coding in Stata, R, or Python is desirable, as is past work on cost-benefit analysis.
The Graduate Research Student Assistant will be hired for Summer 2022 only. The deadline to apply is June 6, 2022.
The Center for Girls’ Education (CGE) in Abuja, Nigeria provides mentored safe spaces to adolescent girls, aimed at increasing empowerment and improving human capital and health. Northern Nigeria has the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with 80% of adolescent girls married by age 18, and 50% by the age of 15. The Pathways program (2018-2020) focuses on unmarried girls, aged 12-19, who are not currently enrolled in school, with the goal of increasing educational attainment and delaying marriage. The MAS program (on-going) focuses on married adolescents, with goals of improving health services access and introducing the use of birth spacing techniques. In both programs, mentors from similar backgrounds meet with the girls once or twice per week. The mentors provide a combination of literacy and numeracy skills, financial management, support for entrepreneurship, and assistance in accessing and navigating bureaucracies.
This research is focused on a quantitative impact assessment of both programs, using paired cluster-randomized designs. In particular, data has been collected from a 2018 baseline survey and 2020 endline survey for Pathways and is currently being used to analyze the impacts of the program on adolescent girls; early results are promising with regards to delaying marriage and increasing education.
Evans School students and graduate students from other units with demonstrated background in econometric analysis and interest in empowerment are invited to apply for an hourly Graduate Research Student Assistant (GRSA) position. The hourly GRSA will work with a supervisor, Assistant professor Isabelle Cohen, during the summer. This summer hourly position assumes that the student is not enrolled in summer quarter and the hourly rate is commensurate with academic standing, qualifications, and experience.
Successful applicants will have a positive and professional attitude, strong organizational and time management skills, and the willingness to work both independently and collectively in team settings. Attention to detail, critical thinking, the ability to identify, access, interpret, synthesize, and display data and information, and the ability to write clearly and concisely, as well as the ability to accept and integrate constructive feedback on work are also required. Experience with quantitative analysis and coding in Stata, R, or Python is desirable, as is past work on cost-benefit analysis.
The Graduate Research Student Assistant will be hired for Summer 2022 only. The deadline to apply is June 6, 2022.
Duties:
- Developing a framework and conducting cost-benefit analysis for Pathways based on the two-year endline surveyed completed in 2020
- Assisting with the academic paper being written from the Pathways intervention, including but not limited to data cleaning, data analysis and a literature review
- Cleaning and analyzing baseline data from MAS communities to produce descriptive statistics and check balance by treatment groups
Deadline: 06/06/2022