Children’s Schooling and Work in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Rural Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana Maria Davila; Gutiérrez, Martha Isabel; Meghir, Costas; Mesnard, Alice

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“…In Brazil, Bolsa Escola was found to increase the percentage of girls who combined work with school, suggesting a small significant increase in girls' labour (Cardoso and Souza, 2003). In contrast, in countries where school participation rates were already high, impacts were more likely to register in reductions in work at the intensive margin, if at all, as in Colombia (Attanasio et al, 2010) and Uruguay (Borraz and Gonzales, 2009). Reductions in child labour were also greater for secondary school children and poorer households.…”

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Economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Waddington

2015

Journal of Development Effectiveness

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Economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Waddington

2015

Journal of Development Effectiveness

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“…In this paper we document the human capital effects of Ghana's flagship poverty alleviation programme, the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP), a cash transfer targeted to households who are ultra-poor and fall into specific demographic groups. While schooling impacts of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been well documented (Attanasio et al, 2010;Dammert, 2010;Schultz, 2004), the evidence from unconditional programmes (UCTs) is somewhat less well-established, though results from ongoing large-scale evaluations suggests that these are also positive and sometimes larger than those reported for CCTs. In CCTs that are conditional on school enrolment, reported increases in school enrolment are typically a direct consequence of programme design and implementation -whether transfers are high enough and conditions are enforced.…”

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Heterogeneous Impacts of an Unconditional CashTransfer Programme on Schooling

2015

Innocenti Working Papers

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“…2 First, using data from developed countries the literature has found that although there is evidence that when proper identification of the relation is done the effects are smaller than those found in simple correlations the effects are still significant in many cases (Geronimus and Korenman, 1992 Hotz, McElroy and Sanders, 2005). Second, there are important reasons to believe that the effects of teenage childbearing in developing countries may be different from those in developed countries.…”

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“…The effects of these programs on school enrollment have been studied by Attanasio et al (2010) and by Barrera et al (2011). Attanasio et al (2011) show that FA has been effective but restricts the evaluation to the rural Colombia which has very different conditions than the big cities.…”

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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

2011

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage pregnancy if it does not condition on school performance. Then, using an original data base, we estimate the causal impact on teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both programs differ particularly on whether school success is a condition for renewal or not. We show that SE has negative average effect on teenage pregnancy while FA has a null average effect. We also find that SE has either null or no effect for adolescents in all age and grade groups while FA has positive, null or negative effects for adolescents in different age and grade groups. Since SE conditions renewal on school success and FA does not, we can argue that the empirical results are consistent with the predictions of our model and that conditioning renewal of the subsidy on school success crucially determines the effect of the subsidy on teenage pregnancy. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: D120, I280, I380, J130.Keywords: teenage risk taking behavior, teenage pregnancy, education, conditional cash transfers, incentives. This paper is part of the results of the project "Evaluating policies to reduce teenage childbearing in Bogotá, Colombia: the effect of policies reducing costs of education faced by households" funded by PEP-BID-GRADE Teenage Childbearing Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean and by FIUR from Universidad del Rosario. We thank Catalina Latorre and Mónica Ortegón for their participation in the field work and the questionnaire design. We gratefully acknowledge Laura Moreno, Jorge Pérez and Paul Rodríguez for their excellent research assistance; Luis Piñeros and Mauricio Castillo for the organization of the field work. We thank the participants on the IADB "Teenage Pregnancy" Workshop in Washington, the 8th PEP General Meeting in Dakar-Senegal, the NIP-LACEA meetings in Cali-Colombia and Medellín-Colombia, the LACEA Darwin Cortés Department of Economics

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Cited by 166 publications

References 9 publications

Economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Heterogeneous Impacts of an Unconditional CashTransfer Programme on Schooling

On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

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