The Heterogeneous Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers
Sebastian Galiani and Patrick J McEwan , ( 103 )
Journal of Public Economics
85-96
July
2013
Abstract

The Honduran PRAF experiment randomly assigned conditional cash transfers to 40 of 70 poor municipalities, within five strata defined by a poverty proxy. Using census data, we show that eligible children were 8 percentage points more likely to enroll in school and 3 percentage points less likely to work. The effects were much larger in the two poorest strata, and statistically insignificant in the other three (the latter finding is robust to the use of a separate regression-discontinuity design).

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