Data and Code for: Schoolgirls Not Brides: Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Hélène Giacobino, J-PAL; Elise Huillery, Université Paris Dauphine, PSL Research University, and J-PAL; Bastien Michel, LEMNA, Nantes Université; Mathilde Sage, Université Paris Dauphine, PSL Research University

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Project Citation:

Giacobino, Hélène, Huillery, Elise, Michel, Bastien, and Sage, Mathilde. Data and Code for: Schoolgirls Not Brides: Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-09-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E191321V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Funding Sources: The Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) Project in Niger; The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (awarded through J-PAL Post-Primary Initiative) (GR 0816)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Child Marriage; Education; Women Empowerment; Externalities; Niger

JEL Classification:
I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
J10 Demographic Economics: General

Geographic Coverage: Niger

Time Period(s): 10/1/2017 – 8/31/2020 (Oct.17-Aug.20)

Collection Date(s): 12/2017 – 8/2020

Universe:

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.

Data Type(s): survey data

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