Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfe...

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Main Authors:	Benhassine, Najy, Devoto, Florencia, Duflo, Esther, Dupas, Pascaline, Pouliquen, Victor
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	American Economic Association 2016
Subjects:	conditional cash transfer labeled cash transfer education support grant school enrollment human capital education finance
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23938

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spelling	okr-10986-239382021-04-23T14:04:18Z Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor conditional cash transfer labeled cash transfer education support grant school enrollment human capital education finance Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school participation. Adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference in our context. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results. 2016-03-10T22:21:01Z 2016-03-10T22:21:01Z 2015-08 Journal Article American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1945-7731 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23938 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo American Economic Association American Economic Association Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa Morocco
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spellingShingle	conditional cash transfer labeled cash transfer education support grant school enrollment human capital education finance Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education
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description	Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school participation. Adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference in our context. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results.
format	Journal Article
author	Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor
author_facet	Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor
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title	Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education
title_short	Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education
title_full	Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education
title_fullStr	Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education
title_full_unstemmed	Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education
title_sort	turning a shove into a nudge? : a 'labeled cash transfer' for education
publisher	American Economic Association
publishDate	2016
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Turning a Shove into a Nudge? : A 'Labeled Cash Transfer' for Education

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