Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162529 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Policy Paper No. 118
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Conditional cash transfers are increasingly being used by policymakers as a strategy to postpone the marriage of adolescent girls in developing countries. While this approach has met with success in the case of education and health programmes, it is unlikely, on its own, to address deeper issues related to child marriage, such as the agency of adolescent girls in their marriage decisions, sexual rights within marriage, and social norms within their own communities. We argue for a multi-dimensional, longer-term and holistic view of impact, that takes into account dimensions such as realized rights, health and access to education rather than cost-benefit based approaches that rely on single-focus indicators.
Subjects: 
poverty
early marriage
South Asia
conditional transfers
cost benefit analysis
JEL: 
J12
J16
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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