Monetary Incentives to Complete School in Argentina

The paper empirically explores the effects of the monetary incentive involved by the program Stamps School for my Future on the educational performance of students in the province of San Luis in Argentina. Specifically it comes to measuring the impact of the program on the education gap, repetition and dropping out of school. Using difference-in-difference methodology, the study finds that the effect is favorable, i.e. the program reduces the school delay and repetition rate in general. For the dropout rate, however, the effect could not be detected