Does more cash in conditional cash transfer programs always lead to larger impacts on school attendance?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Filmer, Deon; Schady, Norbert
• 署名单位: The World Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.05.006
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 150-157
• 关键词: Conditional cash transfers; Transfer size; Schooling

摘要

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. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.