Performance conditionality in conditional cash transfers (CCT) and gender-based school violence: a vignette experiment

Last registered on April 15, 2025
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Performance conditionality in conditional cash transfers (CCT) and gender-based school violence: a vignette experiment
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0015745
Initial registration date
April 04, 2025

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First published
April 15, 2025, 1:17 PM EDT

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

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Primary Investigator

Name
Sarah Deschenes
Affiliation
Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), World Bank
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2021-07-01
End date
2025-07-31
Keywords
Education, Gender, Other
Additional Keywords
School gender-based violence
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
Using a vignette experiment, I investigate whether imposing a school performance condition to a cash transfer meant to keep girls in secondary school affects their perceived vulnerability to sexual blackmail by male teachers. I explore the causal effect of imposing such condition on injunctive and descriptive norms around girls’ response to sexual blackmail and the occurrence of the phenomenon. I study whether such perception vary with the exogenous exposure to a CCT.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Deschenes, Sarah. 2025. "Performance conditionality in conditional cash transfers (CCT) and gender-based school violence: a vignette experiment." AEA RCT Registry. April 15. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.15745-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

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

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Perception of whether they should denounce sexual blackmail, perception of what is the usual response to sexual blackmail, knowledge of occurrence of such behavior, experience of sexual blackmail.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
The vignette experiment was added to the endline survey of a randomized control trial assessing the impact of a CCT to keep girls in secondary school. In the main RCT, 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 tutors receive the CCT on behalf of the adolescent girls (T2, 100 schools). In the second treatment group, transfers are made to female tutors (T3, 100 schools). The random allocation of schools to the different groups was stratified by department.
For the vignette experiment, respondents were randomly assigned to receive a version of the vignette that stressed that girls had to have good grades and move on to the next grade to keep the benefit of the CCT or a version that did not mention this condition.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
randomization done in office by a computer
Randomization Unit
Individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
N/A
Sample size: planned number of observations
6000 adolescents
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
The vignette was not clustered.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
Supporting Documents and Materials
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) Project: Empowering Adolescent Girls in Benin
IRB Approval Date
2021-07-21
IRB Approval Number
935TWBG21
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