The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers

Autores
Galiani, Sebastián; McEwan, Patrick J.
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
inglés
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The Honduran PRAF experiment randomly assigned conditional cash transfers to 40 of 70 poor municipalities, within five strata defined by a poverty proxy. Using census data, we show that eligible children were 8 percentage points more likely to enroll in school and 3 percentage points less likely to work. The effects were much larger in the two poorest strata, and statistically insignificant in the other three (the latter finding is robust to the use of a separate regression-discontinuity design). Heterogeneity confirms the importance of judicious targeting to maximize the impact and cost-effectiveness of CCTs. There is no consistent evidence of effects on ineligible children or on adult labor supply.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: H00
Honduras
transferencia
economía monetaria
conditional cash transfers
education
child labor
randomized experiment
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
title The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
spellingShingle The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
Galiani, Sebastián
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: H00
Honduras
transferencia
economía monetaria
conditional cash transfers
education
child labor
randomized experiment
title_short The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
title_full The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
title_fullStr The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
title_full_unstemmed The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
title_sort The heterogeneous impact for conditional cash transfers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Galiani, Sebastián
McEwan, Patrick J.
author Galiani, Sebastián
author_facet Galiani, Sebastián
McEwan, Patrick J.
author_role author
author2 McEwan, Patrick J.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
JEL: H00
Honduras
transferencia
economía monetaria
conditional cash transfers
education
child labor
randomized experiment
topic Ciencias Económicas
JEL: H00
Honduras
transferencia
economía monetaria
conditional cash transfers
education
child labor
randomized experiment
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The Honduran PRAF experiment randomly assigned conditional cash transfers to 40 of 70 poor municipalities, within five strata defined by a poverty proxy. Using census data, we show that eligible children were 8 percentage points more likely to enroll in school and 3 percentage points less likely to work. The effects were much larger in the two poorest strata, and statistically insignificant in the other three (the latter finding is robust to the use of a separate regression-discontinuity design). Heterogeneity confirms the importance of judicious targeting to maximize the impact and cost-effectiveness of CCTs. There is no consistent evidence of effects on ineligible children or on adult labor supply.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description The Honduran PRAF experiment randomly assigned conditional cash transfers to 40 of 70 poor municipalities, within five strata defined by a poverty proxy. Using census data, we show that eligible children were 8 percentage points more likely to enroll in school and 3 percentage points less likely to work. The effects were much larger in the two poorest strata, and statistically insignificant in the other three (the latter finding is robust to the use of a separate regression-discontinuity design). Heterogeneity confirms the importance of judicious targeting to maximize the impact and cost-effectiveness of CCTs. There is no consistent evidence of effects on ineligible children or on adult labor supply.
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