Add to ORKGThis paper examines the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on girls’ early childhood survival in India. With a view to improve sex ratios and alleviate the status of girls, the Government of India launched the Dhan Lakshmi financial incentive scheme in 2008 in select districts of seven states. The program offers financial benefits to parents for raising daughters. Using district-level data from a large household survey, we analyze the program’s effect on sex ratios in the state of Punjab, which reports one of the most skewed sex ratios in the country. Results indicate a positive impact of the CCT in the state, particularly, in raising the share of girls at birth. The paper discusses the plausible explanations for the observ...
Instead of mean-tested Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gen...
The focus of this paper is on the complementary mechanisms and interventions likely to increase the ...
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex rat...
This review examines evidence on the key design features and impact of programmes that use Condition...
My dissertation evaluates both own and spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program targ...
For many years, the Punjab province of India has had the dubious distinction of having the worst sex...
This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) for on sex ratios, health and nu...
Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gen...
Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to disco...
The article explores the issue of the conditional cash transfers scheme for the girl child in Haryan...
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well‐being of girls by analyzing...
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pak...
This paper argues that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality and joint famil...
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex rat...
In recent decades, several countries have experienced a rapid increase in their sex ratios at birth....
Instead of mean-tested Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gen...
The focus of this paper is on the complementary mechanisms and interventions likely to increase the ...
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex rat...
This review examines evidence on the key design features and impact of programmes that use Condition...
My dissertation evaluates both own and spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program targ...
For many years, the Punjab province of India has had the dubious distinction of having the worst sex...
This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) for on sex ratios, health and nu...
Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gen...
Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to disco...
The article explores the issue of the conditional cash transfers scheme for the girl child in Haryan...
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well‐being of girls by analyzing...
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pak...
This paper argues that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality and joint famil...
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex rat...
In recent decades, several countries have experienced a rapid increase in their sex ratios at birth....
Instead of mean-tested Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gen...
The focus of this paper is on the complementary mechanisms and interventions likely to increase the ...
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex rat...