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The problem
Intervention: Structural and norms-based intervention working with adolescent girls, their families, communities, and secondary schools to address poverty, schooling quality, and gender norms
Who it was tested with: Scheduled-caste and scheduled-tribe adolescent girls in rural secondary schools in southern India.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Primary trial outcomes were proportion of girls who completed secondary school and were married, by trial end-line (15-16 years). Analyses were intention-to-treat and used individual-level girl data." The study employed a cluster-randomised design with pre-specified outcomes and ITT analysis, representing experimental evidence; however, the overall null result and district-specific effects make the evidence inconclusive about the intervention's general effectiveness.
The intervention's true effect could not be isolated from concurrent large-scale government programs operating in the same districts. Differential effectiveness in only one of two implementation districts limits generalisability. Attrition at end-line was 27.2%, though sensitivity analyses indicated this was random.
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