A Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines Reduces Severe Stunting

How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program Conditional cash transfer programs

Over the past decade, conditional cash transfer programs have been widely adopted in lowerand middle-income countries. Nearly every Latin American country has such a program, and pilot programs are being implemented in countries around the world, including locations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and most recently, North America. There has been relatively consistent evidence that these prog...

A Cash Transfer Program Reduces HIV Infections among Adolescent Girls

A large randomized trial in Malawi shows that schoolgirls whose families received monthly cash transfers had a significantly lower HIV infection rate than the control group. The two-year experiment in Zomba, a district in southern Malawi, offered cash to households with schoolgirls aged 13-22 who had never been married. Some of the offers were conditional on regular school attendance, while oth...

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

Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program The Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social

This paper presents the main findings of a quantitative evaluation of the Red de Protección Social (RPS), a conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua, against its primary objectives. These included supplementing income to increase household expenditures on food, reducing primary school desertion, and improving the health care and nutritional status of children under age 5. The evaluation d...

Two Year Cash Transfer Program*

We study a group of young women in rural Malawi who were exposed to a cash transfer experiment as adolescents. More than two years after the end of transfers, we find that the substantial short-term benefits of the program have largely evaporated. Unconditional cash transfers (UCT) caused a shortterm delay of marriage, fertility, and HIV infection, but the ending of the program is immediately f...