TY - BOOK ID - 137880309 TI - Conditional Cash Transfers and Female Schooling : The Impact of the Female School Stipend Program On Public School Enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan AU - Chaudhury, Nazmul AU - Parajuli, Dilip PY - 2007 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Adults KW - Education KW - Education for All KW - Education Reform and Management KW - Education System KW - Effective Schools and Teachers KW - Female Children KW - Female Education KW - Female Enrollment KW - Female Schooling KW - Female Students KW - Gender KW - Gender and Education KW - Gender Disparity KW - Literacy KW - Primary Education KW - Private Secondary Schools KW - Public School KW - Public Schools KW - School KW - School Attendance KW - School Census KW - School Censuses KW - School Enrollment KW - School Enrollments KW - Secondary Education KW - Secondary School KW - Tertiary Education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137880309 AB - Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in public schools? To address this question, the authors draw on data from the provincial school censuses of 2003 and 2005. They estimate the net growth in female enrollments in grades 6-8 in stipend eligible schools. Impact evaluation analysis, including difference-and-difference (DD), triple differencing (DDD), and regression-discontinuity design (RDD) indicate a modest but statistically significant impact of the intervention. The preferred estimator derived from a combination of DDD and RDD empirical strategies suggests that the average program impact between 2003 and 2005 was an increase of six female students per school in terms of absolute change and an increase of 9 percent in female enrollment in terms of relative change. A triangulation effort is also undertaken using two rounds of a nationally representative household survey before and after the intervention. Even though the surveys are not representative at the subprovincial level, the results corroborate evidence of the impact using school census data. ER -