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

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    2020-12-11
    Author
    Haider, Huma
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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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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/15900
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    Haider, H. (2020). Financial incentives to reduce female infanticide, child marriage and to promote girls’ education. K4D Helpdesk Report 943. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies. DOI: 10.19088/K4D.2021.004
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    10.19088/K4D.2021.004
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    K4D Helpdesk Report;943
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    FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
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