Replication data for: Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Felipe Barrera-Osorio; Marianne Bertrand; Leigh L. Linden; Francisco Perez-Calle

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Project Citation:

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Bertrand, Marianne, Linden, Leigh L., and Perez-Calle, Francisco. Replication data for: Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113783V1

Project Description

Summary: Using a student level randomization, we compare three education-based conditional cash transfers designs: a standard design, a design where part of the monthly transfers are postponed until children have to re-enroll in school, and a design that lowers the reward for attendance but incentivizes graduation and tertiary enrollment. The two nonstandard designs significantly increase enrollment rates at both the secondary and tertiary levels while delivering the same attendance gains as the standard design. Postponing some of the attendance transfers to the time of re-enrollment appears particularly effective for the most at-risk children. (JEL H23, I21, I22, J13, O15)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I22 Educational Finance; Financial Aid
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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