Schoolgirls, Not Brides: Education as a Shield against Child Marriage
在尼日尔开展的一项大规模随机对照试验发现，基于奖学金的干预措施通过促进中学教育，使辍学率和童婚率均减半，并提升了女孩及其父母的期望，且未对其他女孩产生负面替代效应。
We study the impact of a scholarship-based intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by fostering secondary education among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial, we find that after three years of implementation, the intervention led to large and positive effects. It halved both dropout and marriage rates and increased girls' and their parents' aspirations. Importantly, there is no displacement effect detrimental to the education and marriage status of nontreatment girls. Our results show that financial aid for education has the potential to transform adolescent girls' lives.