Conditional Cash Transfers and Shocks: Evidence from the Philippines

Conditional Cash Transfers, Credit, Remittances, Shocks, and Education:

This work estimates the impact on school enrollment of a Nicaraguan conditional cash transfer program, Red de Protección Social (RPS). RPS is one of a growing number of these programs (e.g. Progresa, Bolsa Escola, and PRAF) that pays households regular cash transfers on the condition that their children attend school and all household members visit health clinics and seminars. A household model...

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean impacts on schooling, health, and child labor. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from...

Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers

We carry out a systematic review of studies on CCTs that report maternal and newborn health outcomes, including studies from eight countries. We find that CCTs have increased antenatal visits, skilled attendance at birth, delivery at a health facility, and tetanus toxoid vaccination for mothers, and reduced the incidence of low birth weight. The programs have not had a significant impact on fer...

The heterogeneous impact of conditional cash transfers

⁎ Corresponding author at: Department of Economics, Street, Wellesley MA 02481, United States. Tel.: +1 781 E-mail address: [email protected] (P.J. McEw 1 TheProgresa experiment inMexico showed short-run e percentage point among primary children—with primary en 90%—but 6–9 percentage points among secondary school ch et al., 2005; Skoufias, 2005). Almost six years after the treat the educati...

A Philosophical Framework for Conditional Cash Transfers