Abby M Lohr, Melanie L Bell, Kiera Coulter, Sallie Marston, Moses Thompson, Scott C Carvajal, Ada M Wilkinson-Lee, Lynn B Gerald, Josephine Korchmaros
The Association Between Duration of School Garden Exposure and Self-Reported Learning and School Connectedness
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preventing early marriage increasing girls education shown promise assessed effects twoyear cash plus program marriage fertility pastoralist setting northeastern kenya six years began prospective 80cluster randomized trial followed 2147 girls 1114 years old starting 2015 reinterviewing 942 2021 interventions included community dialogues violence prevention conditional cash transfer education health life skills training health financial literacy wealth creation villages randomized one four study arms 1 violence prevention vonly 2 education 3 health veh 4 wealth creation vehw used analysis covariance estimate intenttotreat impacts study arm education component well pooled weighted average study arm combining veh vehw reference vonly four years intervention ended girls 1720 years old base specification estimates show reductions primary outcomes though none statistically significant full sample estimates extended controls larger pooled study arm significantly lower marriage pregnancy considerably larger statistically significant effects baseline outofschool subsample pooled estimates indicate 182 percentage point lower marriage compared vonly 151 percentage point lower pregnancy group pooled estimates indicate 279 percentage point increase current enrollment compared 71 vonly 18 grades increase compared 12 vonly study shows potential interventions early adolescence education component delay marriage fertility late adolescence early adulthood marginalized socially conservative setting low education high rates child marriage