Cash transfers conditional on schooling reduce IPV among young women in South Africa

Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative and University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

No 1090690491, Other briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This case study summarizes the impact from a conditional cash transfer program targeted to girls of secondary school age in South Africa. The program led to a 34 percent reduction in intimate partner physical violence by allowing girls to avoid potential violent partnerships, as transfers delayed sexual debut and lowered their number of sexual partners.

Keywords: intrahousehold relations; gender; social protection; empowerment; cash transfers; domestic violence; women; South Africa; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Southern Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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