Using conditional and unconditional quantile regressions this paper finds that the Mexican conditional cash transfer program PROGRESA Oportunidades has had a positive but distributionally regressive effect on the birthweight of babies born into enrolled households. The program impact varies from 135 grams on birthweights at the 20th percentile of the conditional distribution to 207 grams on bir...

Conditional e-cash or conditional e-payments have been introduced by Shi et al. as the means for enabling electronic payments to be based on the outcome of a certain condition not known in advance. In this framework, a payer obtains an electronic coin and can transfer it to a payee under a certain condition. Once the outcome of the condition is known, if it was favorable to the payee, the payee...

As an effort to accelerate poverty alleviation, since 2007 the Government of Indonesia has implemented PKH. The Social Protection Program, which is also known internationally as Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT), proven be quite successful in overcoming faced these countries, especially problem chronic poverty. However, a conditional social assistance program, PKH not made it easy for poor famil...

Abstract One of the Indonesia’s Government efforts to improve quality education, particularly at primary and secondary level, is provision BSM. This program launched under TNP2K due lack significant BOS in overcoming number drop out students parenting difficulties meeting other educational needs such as uniforms, shoes, transportation costs education expenses not covered by funds. However, impl...

The current article shows the development of a research process whose main objective was to explain influence social representations inhabitants Bogotá, Colombia in implementation public policy conditional cash transfers “Más Familias en Acción.” For this aim, qualitative study hermeneutic design conducted with beneficiaries program and non-beneficiaries, which, through application semi-structu...

The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Cognitive Achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce poverty. In terms of educational outcomes, a number of impact evaluation studies have shown that su...