Data and Code for: Schoolgirls Not Brides: Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage
Domain:
educationsocioeconomicRecord type:
dataset
Creator:
GiaHuiMicSag
Publisher:
ICP
Host:
We study the impact of a scholarship-based
intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by fostering secondary education
among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale randomized controlled
trial, we find that, after three years of implementation, the intervention led
to large and positive effects: it halved both dropout and marriage rates, and raised
girls’ and their parents’ aspirations. Importantly, there is no displacement
effect detrimental to the education and marriage status of non-beneficiary girls. This paper
shows that financial aid for education has the potential to transform girl adolescents’
life.
The study takes place in Niger, in five of the country’s seven regions: Dosso, Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabéry, and Zinder.
Our sample consists of 285 rural primary school catchment areas, which we refer to as villages for simplicity (in most cases there is indeed one primary school per village). The villages were selected by the Ministry of Primary Education, Literacy, Promotion of National Languages and Civic Education using the 2012 census data. The selection criteria included high rates of early marriage and pregnancy, low enrollment rates in middle school, and the absence of a middle school.
In each of the 285 selected villages, all girls who were deemed eligible, had started middle school in October 2017, and were still in school at the time of the baseline survey in December 2017 were included in the study.
The study sample totals up to 2,272 girls.
.
The study takes place in Niger, in five of the country’s seven regions: Dosso, Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabéry, and Zinder.
Our sample consists of 285 rural primary school catchment areas, which we refer to as villages for simplicity (in most cases there is indeed one primary school per village). The villages were selected by the Ministry of Primary Education, Literacy, Promotion of National Languages and Civic Education using the 2012 census data. The selection criteria included high rates of early marriage and pregnancy, low enrollment rates in middle school, and the absence of a middle school.
In each of the 285 selected villages, all girls who were deemed eligible, had started middle school in October 2017, and were still in school at the time of the baseline survey in December 2017 were included in the study.
The study sample totals up to 2,272 girls.
.