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 education transfers gained 0.7–1 more grades in school ment tests (Behrman et al., 2009, 2011). The Nicaraguan RP effects of 13 percentage points onprimary-aged children afte ment, with accompanying gains in attendance and grade adv 2005;Maluccio et al., 2010). In Ecuador, a CCTwas randomly poor families, although administrative issues led nearly 42% transfers (Schady and Araujo, 2008). Intention-to-treat estim ment to the treatment group increased enrollment by 3 pe mental variables estimates showed effects of 10 percentag at poor urban adolescents in Bogotá increased attendance school (Barrera-Osorio et al., 2011).