on the other hand some men may accept this increased position of women in the household and decrease ipv in order to keep her satisfied in the marriage the items in the farleft box represent different elements of the program design that can influence its impact such as the size frequency and duration of transfers and the targeting criteria including the particular vulnerability and poverty profiles of the beneficiary population and whether or not women are explicit recipients of the transfer we hypothesize that the specific pathways or causal mechanisms that become operative in any instance may be a function of the design features of the ct itself and how a womans partner reacts to the transfer and the context of the ct program including underlying contextual factors such as the gender regimes social norms and local laws and policies in the following sections we explain stylized versions of each pathway relying where necessary on a broader evidence base than the ct and ipv literature and analyse the degree to which data from the review either supports or refutes the hypothesised pathway