Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina

Autores
Edo, María; Marchionni, Mariana; Garganta, Santiago
Año de publicación
2015
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inglés
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Descripción
Argentina has traditionally stood out in terms of educational outcomes among its Latin American counterparts. Schooling among older children, however, still shows room for improvement especially among the more vulnerable. Fortunately, the last decade witnessed a sizeable improvement in attendance rates for children aged 15 through 17. This could be related to the 2006 National Education Law that made uppersecondary education compulsory. In this paper, instead, we claim that the Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) a massive conditional cash transfer program implemented in 2009 in Argentina may be partly responsible for this improvement. Using a difference in difference model we estimate that the program accounts for a 3.9 percentage point increase in attendance rates among those eligible children aged 15 through 17.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
cash transfers
education
schooling
Argentina
educación
JEL: J13, H52, I21
AUH
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
title Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
spellingShingle Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
Edo, María
Ciencias Económicas
cash transfers
education
schooling
Argentina
educación
JEL: J13, H52, I21
AUH
title_short Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
title_full Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
title_fullStr Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
title_sort Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Enforcement of Compulsory Education Laws : The case of Asignación Universal por Hijo in Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Edo, María
Marchionni, Mariana
Garganta, Santiago
author Edo, María
author_facet Edo, María
Marchionni, Mariana
Garganta, Santiago
author_role author
author2 Marchionni, Mariana
Garganta, Santiago
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
cash transfers
education
schooling
Argentina
educación
JEL: J13, H52, I21
AUH
topic Ciencias Económicas
cash transfers
education
schooling
Argentina
educación
JEL: J13, H52, I21
AUH
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Argentina has traditionally stood out in terms of educational outcomes among its Latin American counterparts. Schooling among older children, however, still shows room for improvement especially among the more vulnerable. Fortunately, the last decade witnessed a sizeable improvement in attendance rates for children aged 15 through 17. This could be related to the 2006 National Education Law that made uppersecondary education compulsory. In this paper, instead, we claim that the Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) a massive conditional cash transfer program implemented in 2009 in Argentina may be partly responsible for this improvement. Using a difference in difference model we estimate that the program accounts for a 3.9 percentage point increase in attendance rates among those eligible children aged 15 through 17.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description Argentina has traditionally stood out in terms of educational outcomes among its Latin American counterparts. Schooling among older children, however, still shows room for improvement especially among the more vulnerable. Fortunately, the last decade witnessed a sizeable improvement in attendance rates for children aged 15 through 17. This could be related to the 2006 National Education Law that made uppersecondary education compulsory. In this paper, instead, we claim that the Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) a massive conditional cash transfer program implemented in 2009 in Argentina may be partly responsible for this improvement. Using a difference in difference model we estimate that the program accounts for a 3.9 percentage point increase in attendance rates among those eligible children aged 15 through 17.
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