| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22670 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22670 |
| Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap? | |
| M. Caridad Araujo; Mariano Bosch; Norbert Schady | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-09-26 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Many poor households in developing countries are liquidity-constrained. As a result, they may under-invest in the human capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources of data and two identification strategies. First, we extend the results from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to “early” or “late” treatment groups. Although the early treatment group received twice as much in transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on performance on a large number of tests. Second, we use a regression discontinuity design exploiting the fact that a “poverty index” was used to determine eligibility for transfers. We focus on children who were just-eligible and just-ineligible for transfers when they were in late childhood, and compare their school attainment and work status 10 years later. Transfers increased secondary school completion, but the effects are small, between 1 and 2 percentage points from a counterfactual school completion rate of 75 percent. We conclude that any effect of cash transfers on the inter-generational transmission of poverty in Ecuador is likely to be modest. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22670 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580342 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | M. Caridad Araujo,Mariano Bosch,Norbert Schady. Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?. 2016. |
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