Does More Schooling Imply Improved Learning? Evidence From a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in India

The impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on determinants of child health: evidence from Colombia.

OBJECTIVE Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide income to low-income families in return for fulfilling specific behavioural conditions. CCT have been shown to improve child health, but there are few systematic studies of their impact on multiple determinants of child health. We examined the impact of a CCT programme in Colombia on: (i) use of preventive health services; (ii) food c...

Making Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become extensively used to induce poor parents to increase their investments in the human capital of their children. The condition on school attendance and use of health facilities transforms the transfer into a price effect on the condition. Justification for the condition is to reduce market failures due to positive externalities from investments ...

A Performance-based Conditional Cash Transfer Programme. a Qualitative Analysis

As one of the first pieces of published research on New York’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, this paper presents the nuts-and-bolts of Opportunity New York City. It details the programme’s performance-based conditionalities, contrasts its different subcomponents, and compares its design and conception to that of its precursor CCT programmes in Latin America. Finally, the paper cons...

Children’s Schooling and Work in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Rural Colombia

How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program Conditional cash transfer programs

Over the past decade, conditional cash transfer programs have been widely adopted in lowerand middle-income countries. Nearly every Latin American country has such a program, and pilot programs are being implemented in countries around the world, including locations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and most recently, North America. There has been relatively consistent evidence that these prog...