Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51960 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5703
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle-school increased in the short term by nearly 9 percentage points. This paper uses regression discontinuity and difference-in-difference analyses to show that five years into the program implementation positive impacts do persist. Beneficiary adolescent girls are more likely to progress through and complete middle school and work less. There is suggestive evidence that participating girls delay their marriage and have fewer births by the time they are 19 years old. Also, girls who are exposed to the program later-on, and eligible for the benefits given in high school, increase their rates of matriculating into and completing high school. The persistence of impacts can potentially translate into gains in future productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that the program has negative spillover effects on educational outcomes of male siblings.
Subjects: 
conditional cash transfers
female education
female labor participation
fertility
Pakistan
JEL: 
I25
J13
J21
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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