Why Some Girls Drop Out of Secondary School Despite Conditional Cash Transfers: A Mixed Method Analysis

Sambit Rath and Soma Wadhwa

Journal of Development Policy and Practice, 2017, vol. 2, issue 2, 163-194

Abstract: Abstract We use a mixed methods approach to explore why some girls drop out of secondary school despite conditional cash transfers (CCTs), using quantitative and qualitative data collected during the Odisha Girls Incentive Programme, a CCT pilot in India. We estimate a quantitative discrete choice model in the first phase to identify factors that separate dropouts from non-dropouts. In the qualitative phase, we control for those factors by careful choice of case studies and conduct a ceteris paribus analysis. After accounting for socio-economic differences, we find that the girls’ agency, albeit ‘thin’ as in Klocker (2007) , is crucial and may often prove to be the tipping point in enrolment decisions. This has policy implications vis-à -vis counselling strategies for dropout mitigation.

Keywords: Mixed methods; girls’ secondary school dropout; conditional cash transfer (CCT); agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/2455133317704037

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