Experimental Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Schooling, Learning, Fertility, and Labor Market Outcomes after 10 Years

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barham, Tania; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A.
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Paris School of Economics; INRAE; Middlebury College
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvae005
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1844-1883
• 关键词: early-childhood; intervention; impacts; AGE; TECHNOLOGY; countries; CHILDREN; puberty; poverty; GENDER

摘要

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are the antipoverty program of choice in many developing countries, aiming to improve human capital and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. A decade after a randomized 3 year CCT program began, earlier exposure during primary school ages when children were at risk of dropout led to higher labor market participation for young men and women and higher earnings for men. The findings highlight the roles of the different CCT program components with variation in timing of access to nutrition, health, and education investments translating into substantial differential effects on learning outcomes for men and reproductive health outcomes for women.