Keeping Girls in Secondary School: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer in Benin

Last registered on December 17, 2024

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Keeping Girls in Secondary School: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer in Benin
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0015020
Initial registration date
December 13, 2024

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
December 17, 2024, 8:56 AM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

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Primary Investigator

Affiliation
Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), World Bank

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
PI Affiliation
Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), World Bank
PI Affiliation
University of Abomey-Calavi

Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2022-12-01
End date
2025-07-21
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
We study the impact of a cash transfer program targeting vulnerable households in Benin on the condition that they keep enrolling their adolescent daughter to secondary school. We randomly vary the recipient of the transfer to compare the effects of the program when a female guardian receives the money rather than a male guardian. We investigate whether the conditional cash transfer improves girls' schooling (enrollment, attendance and performance), and several measures of adolescents' autonomy. We also investigate whether the schooling outcomes of the other children in the household are affected by the transfer.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Nono et al. 2024. "Keeping Girls in Secondary School: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer in Benin." AEA RCT Registry. December 17. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.15020-1.0
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2023-02-01
Intervention End Date
2024-12-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Education, marriage, fertility, autonomy, empowerment, aspirations
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
300 selected schools were randomly divided into a control group and two treatment groups. The control group consisted solely of schools where adolescent girls did not receive the CCT (T1, 100 schools). The first treatment group is made up of schools where male guardians receive the CCT on behalf of the adolescent girls (T2, 100 schools). In the second treatment group, transfers are made to female guardians (T3, 100 schools).
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Randomization done in office by a computer
Randomization Unit
School
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
300 schools
Sample size: planned number of observations
6000 adolescent girls, 6000 head of households, and 6000 female caregivers.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
100 in the control group, 100 schools in the CCT given to the male caregiver treatment arm, and 100 schools in the CCT given to the female caregiver treatment arm.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
HML IRB
IRB Approval Date
2021-07-21
IRB Approval Number
935TWBG21