Search Results - subject:"Conditional Cash Transfer Programs"

Do We Know What Works?: A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bouillon, César P.; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

working paper was distributed in the "Seminar What Next for Social Policy: Building on the Experience of Conditional Cash … Transfer Programs", from the 2006 IDB Annual Meeting held in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil on April 1, 2006. …

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The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil

Glewwe, Paul; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia - In: Journal of development economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 505-517

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Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs on fertility: the case of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua

Todd, Jessica; Winters, Paul; Stecklov, Guy - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2012) 1, pp. 267-290

Evaluating the impact of poverty-reduction programs on fertility is complicated given that changes in incentives to have children take time to be incorporated into decision making and evaluation periods are usually quite brief. We explore the use of birth spacing as a short-run indicator of the...

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The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil

Glewwe, Paul; Kassouf, Ana Lucia - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 505-517

We examine the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Escola/Familia program on Brazilian children's education outcomes. Bolsa provides cash payments to poor households if their children (ages 6 to 15) are enrolled in school. Using school census data to compare changes in enrollment, dropping out and grade...

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Are Conditional Cash Transfers Effective in Urban Areas? Evidence from Mexico

Behrman, Jere R.; Gallardo-Garcia, Jorge; Parker, Susan W. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2011

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide as a new form of social assistance for the poor. Previous evaluations of CCT programs focus mainly on rural settings, and little is known about their effects in urban areas. This paper studies the short-term (one and two-year)...

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Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs on fertility: the case of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua

Todd, Jessica; Winters, Paul; Stecklov, Guy - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2011) 1, pp. 267-290

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Child Care Provision: Semiparametric Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico.

Dubois, Pierre; Rubio-Codina, Marta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We semiparametrically estimate the impact of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades on the time mothers and older sisters spend taking care of children aged under 3, using the randomization of the program placement and the methodology in Lewbel (2000). Results support the...

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Chapter 62 Evaluating Conditional Schooling and Health Programs

Parker, Susan W.; Rubalcava, Luis; Teruel, Graciela - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3963-4035). 2007

conditional cash transfer programs. The chapter thus analyzes what we know about the success of conditional cash transfer programs …We analyze in this chapter the development and evaluation of a new genre of social programs termed conditional cash … transfer programs which have become widespread across Latin America and are now extending outside the region. Conditional …

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The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Handa, Sudhanshu; Davis, Benjamin - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

This paper discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America, a model of social … while conditional cash transfer programs have generally been successful in terms of reaching their core objective, it is …

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Evaluating Conditional Schooling and Health Programs

Parker, Susan W.; Rubalcava, Luis; Teruel, Graciela - In: Handbook of Development Economics

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