Age at marriage, women’s education, and mother and child outcomes in Bangladesh

Field, Erica; Glennerster, Rachel; Nazneen, Shahana; S, Pimkina; Sen, Iman; Buchmann, Nina; Lab, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action; J-Pal,

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“…▪ Similarly, the Female Secondary School Stipend Programme (Bangladesh), which offered financial incentives to promote the education of girls, had a significant effect on delaying age of marriage (see Field et al, 2018).…”

Section: Child Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…▪ Save the Children's girls' empowerment programme (Bangladesh) offered conditional stipends to families of teenage girls, reducing the likelihood of girls being married under age 18 by 22 percent and, in turn, improving their enrolment in education (Field et al, 2018, i) ▪ Research on the Punjab Female School Stipend Programme (FSSP) (Pakistan) also finds that participant girls delay marriage by over a year (Alam et al, 2011).…”

Section: Child Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…▪ An evaluation of the Save the Children programme also finds that financial incentives to delay marriage, and their positive impact on school enrolment, can improve the socioeconomic status of beneficiaries, allowing them to negotiate continued studies and further delays in marriage (Field et al, 2018).…”

Section: Empowerment Of Girlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Child marriage reflects a lack of agency of adolescent girls in making important life choices (Amin et al, 2017). Early marriage is highly correlated with limited education and access to resources for women, and poor health outcomes for young women and their children (Field et al, 2018). Younger girls also tend to be married to significantly old men, which can undermine the agency and decisionmaking power of the adolescent girl in marriage.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Younger girls also tend to be married to significantly old men, which can undermine the agency and decisionmaking power of the adolescent girl in marriage. This, in turn, can lower reproductive control, or capacity to negotiate sexual relations, contraception and childbearing (Field et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Impact

Haider¹

2020

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This review examines evidence on the key design features and impact of programmes that use Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) or baby bonds to reduce female infanticide, child marriage and promote girl’s education. Conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes have been adopted to promote the survival and well-being of girls. They provide parents with financial incentives to raise daughters; to delay marrying them until age 18, and to reduce the gender imbalance in school. Given that many CCT programmes aimed at addressing girl children are relatively new, it has in many cases been too early to evaluate their effectiveness. There is thus limited evidence of the impact of their implementation and outcomes. This helpdesk report focuses on recent studies, published in the past five years, on select programmes implemented in South Asia, particularly in India, for which there is the most available information. Evidence suggests that CCT programmes aimed at supporting the girl child have succeeded in promoting school enrolment and delaying marriage in South Asia. It is less clear, however, the extent to which these transfers have affected gender-biased sex selection.

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Section: Child Marriagementioning

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Section: Child Marriagementioning

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Section: Empowerment Of Girlsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Impact

Haider¹

2020

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The Samata Intervention to Increase Secondary School Completion and Reduce Child Marriage Among Adolescent Girls: Results from a Cluster-Randomised Control Trial in India

Prakash

Beattie²,

Javalkar³

et al. 2018

SSRN Journal

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The Samata intervention to increase secondary school completion and reduce child marriage among adolescent girls: results from a clusterrandomised control trial in India Background Secondary education and delayed marriage provide long-term socio-economic and health benefits to adolescent girls. We tested whether a structural and norms-based intervention, which worked with adolescent girls, their families, communities, and secondary schools to address poverty, schooling quality and gender norms, could reduce secondary school drop-out and child marriage among scheduled-caste/scheduled-tribe (SC/ ST) adolescent girls in rural settings of southern India.Methods 80 of 121 villages in Vijayapura and Bagalkote districts, Karnataka State, were randomly selected (control = 40; intervention = 40). All 12-13 year-old SC/ST girls in final year of primary school (standard 7 th ) were enrolled and followed for 3 years (2014)(2015)(2016)(2017) until the end of secondary school (standard 10 th ). Primary trial outcomes were proportion of girls who completed secondary school and were married, by trial end-line (15-16 years). Analyses were intention-to-treat and used individual-level girl data.Results 92.6% (2275/2457) girls at baseline and 72.8% (1788/2457) at end-line were interviewed. At end-line, one-fourth had not completed secondary school (control = 24.9%; intervention = 25.4%), and one in ten reported being married (control = 9.6%; intervention = 10.1%). These were lower than expected based on district-level data available before the trial, with no difference between these, or other schooling or sexual and reproductive outcomes, by trial arm. There was a small but significant increase in secondary school entry (adjusted odds ratio AOR = 3.58, 95% confidence interval CI = 1.36-9.44) and completion (AOR=1.54, 95%CI = 1.02-2.34) in Vijayapura district. The sensitivity and attrition analyses did not impact the overall result indicating that attrition of girls at end-line was random without much bearing on overall result.Conclusions Samata intervention had no overall impact, however, it added value in one of the two implementation districts-increasing secondary school entry and completion. Lower than expected school drop-out and child marriage rates at end-line reflect strong secular changes, likely due to large-scale government initiatives to keep girls in school and delay marriage. Although government programmes may be sufficient to reach most girls in these settings, a substantial proportion of SC/ST girls remain atrisk of early marriage and school drop-out, and require targeted programming. Addressing multiple forms of clustered disadvantage among hardest to reach will be key to ensuring India "leaves no-one behind" and achieves its gender, health and education Sustainable Development Goal aspirations. Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov registration number NCT01996241. Electronic supplementary material:The online version of this article contains supplementary material.

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Utilizing social psychology to drive financial policy solutions: Addressing female feticide and infanticide

Farooqui,

Siddiquei,

Kumar

2024

Environ. Soc. Psychol.

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Female feticide and infanticide, are two of the most serious problems confronting Indian society. This issue is largely caused by the identification of female fetuses through technology, which frequently results in the termination of a pregnancy. Despite the government’s efforts to curb these practices, progress has been limited. There are facilities in cities for determining the gender of an unborn child. The financial difficulty of raising a girl child is a key element in the preference for male offspring. The aim of this study is to propose innovative financial solutions that the government can implement to address this longstanding and complex issue. By exploring various financial inclusion strategies, this study seeks to identify effective measures that can bring about social change and promote gender equality.

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Age at marriage, women’s education, and mother and child outcomes in Bangladesh

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References 28 publications

Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Impact

Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Impact

The Samata Intervention to Increase Secondary School Completion and Reduce Child Marriage Among Adolescent Girls: Results from a Cluster-Randomised Control Trial in India

Utilizing social psychology to drive financial policy solutions: Addressing female feticide and infanticide

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