Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia
Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school pa...
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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ACADEMIC LEARNING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACCESS TO SCHOOLS ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ADOLESCENTS ADULTS AGE GROUPS ASSIGNMENT MECHANISM ASSIGNMENT TO TREATMENT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AVERAGE ATTENDANCE AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE SCORE BASIC SERVICES CHILD CARE CHILD EDUCATION CHILD LABOR CLASS SIZE CLASSROOM CLASSROOM SPACE CLASSROOMS COLLEGE ENTRANCE COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMPLETION RATE COMPLETION RATES DEGREES DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED INDIVIDUALS EDUCATION DEGREE EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EDUCATIONAL SERVICES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT RATES EVALUATION METHODS EXAM EXPENDITURES FEE WAIVER FINAL GRADES FINAL OUTCOMES GIRLS GRADE REPETITION GRADUATION RATE GRADUATION RATES HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER ENROLLMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION INDEXES INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERVENTIONS JOB OPPORTUNITIES KNOWLEDGE GAP LABOR FORCE LEARNING LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LITERATURE MATH ACHIEVEMENT MATH TEST MATHEMATICS NET ENROLLMENT NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUTRITION NUTRITION STATUS OLDER CHILDREN OPEN ACCESS PAPERS POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS PUPIL RATIOS QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF LIFE READING REGULAR ATTENDANCE REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL COMPLETION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL FEEDING SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCHOOL SUPPLY SCHOOL VOUCHERS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUBJECTS SUBSIDIES TO EDUCATION TEACHER TEACHER-PUPIL RATIO TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL TRAINING TERTIARY EDUCATION TEST SCORES UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION URBAN SCHOOLS YOUTH |
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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ACADEMIC LEARNING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACCESS TO SCHOOLS ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ADOLESCENTS ADULTS AGE GROUPS ASSIGNMENT MECHANISM ASSIGNMENT TO TREATMENT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AVERAGE ATTENDANCE AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE SCORE BASIC SERVICES CHILD CARE CHILD EDUCATION CHILD LABOR CLASS SIZE CLASSROOM CLASSROOM SPACE CLASSROOMS COLLEGE ENTRANCE COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMPLETION RATE COMPLETION RATES DEGREES DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED INDIVIDUALS EDUCATION DEGREE EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EDUCATIONAL SERVICES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT RATES EVALUATION METHODS EXAM EXPENDITURES FEE WAIVER FINAL GRADES FINAL OUTCOMES GIRLS GRADE REPETITION GRADUATION RATE GRADUATION RATES HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER ENROLLMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION INDEXES INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERVENTIONS JOB OPPORTUNITIES KNOWLEDGE GAP LABOR FORCE LEARNING LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LITERATURE MATH ACHIEVEMENT MATH TEST MATHEMATICS NET ENROLLMENT NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUTRITION NUTRITION STATUS OLDER CHILDREN OPEN ACCESS PAPERS POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS PUPIL RATIOS QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF LIFE READING REGULAR ATTENDANCE REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL COMPLETION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL FEEDING SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCHOOL SUPPLY SCHOOL VOUCHERS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUBJECTS SUBSIDIES TO EDUCATION TEACHER TEACHER-PUPIL RATIO TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL TRAINING TERTIARY EDUCATION TEST SCORES UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION URBAN SCHOOLS YOUTH Baez, Javier E. Camacho, Adriana Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia |
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Conditional cash transfers are programs
under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep
their children in school and take them for health checks.
Although there is significant evidence showing that they
have positive impacts on school participation, little is
known about the long-term impacts of the programs on human
capital. This paper investigates whether cohorts of children
from poor households that benefited up to nine years from
Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in
Colombia, attained more school and performed better on
academic tests at the end of high school. Identification of
program impacts is derived from two different strategies
using matching techniques with household surveys, and
regression discontinuity design using a census of the poor
and administrative records of the program. The authors show
that, on average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage
points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish
high school, particularly girls and beneficiaries in rural
areas. Regarding long-term impact on tests scores, the
analysis shows that program recipients who graduate from
high school seem to perform at the same level as equally
poor non-recipient graduates, even after correcting for
possible selection bias when low-performing students enter
school in the treatment group. Although the positive impacts
on high school graduation may improve the employment and
earning prospects of participants, the lack of positive
effects on test scores raises the need to further explore
policy actions to couple the program's objective of
increasing human capital with enhanced learning. |
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Baez, Javier E. Camacho, Adriana |
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Baez, Javier E. Camacho, Adriana |
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Baez, Javier E. |
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Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia |
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Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia |
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Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia |
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Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia |
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Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia |
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assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital : evidence from colombia |
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2012 |
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okr-10986-34452021-04-23T14:02:09Z Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia Baez, Javier E. Camacho, Adriana ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN ACADEMIC LEARNING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACCESS TO SCHOOLS ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ADOLESCENTS ADULTS AGE GROUPS ASSIGNMENT MECHANISM ASSIGNMENT TO TREATMENT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AVERAGE ATTENDANCE AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE SCORE BASIC SERVICES CHILD CARE CHILD EDUCATION CHILD LABOR CLASS SIZE CLASSROOM CLASSROOM SPACE CLASSROOMS COLLEGE ENTRANCE COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMPLETION RATE COMPLETION RATES DEGREES DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DROPOUT RATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATED INDIVIDUALS EDUCATION DEGREE EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EDUCATIONAL SERVICES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT RATES EVALUATION METHODS EXAM EXPENDITURES FEE WAIVER FINAL GRADES FINAL OUTCOMES GIRLS GRADE REPETITION GRADUATION RATE GRADUATION RATES HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER ENROLLMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION INDEXES INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERVENTIONS JOB OPPORTUNITIES KNOWLEDGE GAP LABOR FORCE LEARNING LEARNING OUTCOMES LET LITERATURE MATH ACHIEVEMENT MATH TEST MATHEMATICS NET ENROLLMENT NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUTRITION NUTRITION STATUS OLDER CHILDREN OPEN ACCESS PAPERS POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOLING PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS PUPIL RATIOS QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF LIFE READING REGULAR ATTENDANCE REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL COMPLETION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL FEEDING SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCHOOL SUPPLY SCHOOL VOUCHERS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENTS PER TEACHER SUBJECTS SUBSIDIES TO EDUCATION TEACHER TEACHER-PUPIL RATIO TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL TRAINING TERTIARY EDUCATION TEST SCORES UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION URBAN SCHOOLS YOUTH Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about the long-term impacts of the programs on human capital. This paper investigates whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, attained more school and performed better on academic tests at the end of high school. Identification of program impacts is derived from two different strategies using matching techniques with household surveys, and regression discontinuity design using a census of the poor and administrative records of the program. The authors show that, on average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school, particularly girls and beneficiaries in rural areas. Regarding long-term impact on tests scores, the analysis shows that program recipients who graduate from high school seem to perform at the same level as equally poor non-recipient graduates, even after correcting for possible selection bias when low-performing students enter school in the treatment group. Although the positive impacts on high school graduation may improve the employment and earning prospects of participants, the lack of positive effects on test scores raises the need to further explore policy actions to couple the program's objective of increasing human capital with enhanced learning. 2012-03-19T18:02:35Z 2012-03-19T18:02:35Z 2011-06-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110614094457 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3445 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5681 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Latin America & Caribbean South America America Colombia |