The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador
Title | The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador PDF eBook |
Author | Juan Ponce, Hessel Oosterbeek, Norbert Schady |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Cash transfer programs |
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Abstract: This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression discontinuity design for families around the second quintile of this index, which is the program's eligibility threshold. This allows us to compare results from two different credible identification methods, and to investigate whether the impact varies with families' poverty level. Around the first quintile of the poverty index the impact is positive while it is equal to zero around the second quintile. This suggests that for the poorest families the program lifts a credit constraint while this is not the case for families close to the eligibility threshold.
Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work
Title | Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Rüdiger Schady |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Child labor |
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"The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned" on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percentage points, and a large, negative impact on child work, about 17 percentage points. Second, the fact that some households believed that there was a school enrollment requirement attached to the transfers, even though such a requirement was never enforced or monitored in Ecuador, helps explain the magnitude of program effects.."--World Bank web site.
Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work
Title | Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Schady |
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Pages | |
Release | 2012 |
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The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned" on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percentage points, and a large, negative impact on child work, about 17 percentage points. Second, the fact that some households believed that there was a school enrollment requirement attached to the transfers, even though such a requirement was never enforced or monitored in Ecuador, helps explain the magnitude of program effects.
The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment
Title | The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment PDF eBook |
Author | Hessel Oosterbeek |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
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The Impact of Cash Transfer on School Enrollment
Title | The Impact of Cash Transfer on School Enrollment PDF eBook |
Author | Hessel Oosterbeek |
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Pages | 24 |
Release | 2008 |
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Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work
Title | Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Schady |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Education |
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Under some conditions macroeconomic crises can have a positive effect on the accumulation of human capital because they reduce the opportunity cost of schooling. This has profound implications for the design of appropriate social protection policies.
The World Bank Research Observer
Title | The World Bank Research Observer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Computer network resources |
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