Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?

There is considerable evidence that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about what features of program design account for the observed outcomes. In this paper we analyze the impact of a progr...

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Main Authors:	Filmer, Deon, Schady, Norbert
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2022
Subjects:	CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TRANSFER SIZE SCHOOLING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37065

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spelling	okr-10986-370652022-03-04T05:10:43Z Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance? Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TRANSFER SIZE SCHOOLING There is considerable evidence that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about what features of program design account for the observed outcomes. In this paper we analyze the impact of a program in Cambodia that made payments of varying magnitude to otherwise comparable households. The identification is based on a sharp regression discontinuity design. We find that a modest cash transfer, equivalent to approximately 2 percent of the consumption of the median recipient household, had a substantial impact on school attendance, approximately 25 percentage points. A somewhat larger transfer did not raise attendance rates above this level. 2022-03-03T06:17:26Z 2022-03-03T06:17:26Z 2011-09-01 Journal Article Journal of Development Economics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37065 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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spellingShingle	CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TRANSFER SIZE SCHOOLING Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
description	There is considerable evidence that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about what features of program design account for the observed outcomes. In this paper we analyze the impact of a program in Cambodia that made payments of varying magnitude to otherwise comparable households. The identification is based on a sharp regression discontinuity design. We find that a modest cash transfer, equivalent to approximately 2 percent of the consumption of the median recipient household, had a substantial impact on school attendance, approximately 25 percentage points. A somewhat larger transfer did not raise attendance rates above this level.
format	Journal Article
author	Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert
author_facet	Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert
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title	Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
title_short	Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
title_full	Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
title_fullStr	Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
title_full_unstemmed	Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
title_sort	does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2022
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37065
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Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?

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