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
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Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Analysis of Education I210 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
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spelling	okr-10986-57382021-04-23T14:02:23Z Does More Cash in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Always Lead to Larger Impacts on School Attendance? Filmer, Deon Schady, Norbert Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Analysis of Education I210 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 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% 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. 2012-03-30T07:34:18Z 2012-03-30T07:34:18Z 2011 Journal Article Journal of Development Economics 03043878 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5738 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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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% 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.
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author	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?
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Does More Cash in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Always Lead to Larger Impacts on School Attendance?

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