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The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment : Evidence from Ecuador

dc.contributor.author Oosterbeek, Hessel
dc.contributor.author Ponce, Juan
dc.contributor.author Schady, Norbert
dc.date.accessioned 2012-05-30T17:38:44Z
dc.date.available 2012-05-30T17:38:44Z
dc.date.issued 2008-06
dc.description.abstract This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression discontinuity design for families around the second quintile of this index, which is the program's eligibility threshold. This allows us to compare results from two different credible identification methods, and to investigate whether the impact varies with families' poverty level. Around the first quintile of the poverty index the impact is positive while it is equal to zero around the second quintile. This suggests that for the poorest families the program lifts a credit constraint while this is not the case for families close to the eligibility threshold. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9541341/impact-cash-transfers-school-enrollment-evidence-ecuador
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6665
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper No. 4645
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN
dc.subject BIASES
dc.subject CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS
dc.subject CASH TRANSFERS
dc.subject CHILD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject CHILD EDUCATION
dc.subject CHILD HEALTH
dc.subject CHILD LABOR
dc.subject COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
dc.subject CREDIT CONSTRAINT
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT BANK
dc.subject EDUCATION SYSTEM
dc.subject ELIGIBILITY
dc.subject ENROLLMENT
dc.subject ENROLLMENT FOR CHILDREN
dc.subject ENROLLMENT OF CHILDREN
dc.subject ENROLLMENT RATE
dc.subject ENROLLMENT RATES
dc.subject ENROLLMENTS
dc.subject EXPENDITURES
dc.subject FERTILITY
dc.subject FINANCIAL RESOURCES
dc.subject GENDER
dc.subject GIRLS
dc.subject GRADE LEVELS
dc.subject HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD
dc.subject HEALTH CARE
dc.subject HEALTH CARE CENTERS
dc.subject HEALTH CENTERS
dc.subject HIGH INEQUALITY
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SIZE
dc.subject HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject ILLITERACY
dc.subject INCOME
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL BANK
dc.subject INTERVENTION
dc.subject LABOR MARKET
dc.subject POOR
dc.subject POOR FAMILIES
dc.subject POVERTY ALLEVIATION
dc.subject POVERTY INDEX
dc.subject POVERTY LEVELS
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject POVERTY THRESHOLD
dc.subject PRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subject PRIMARY SCHOOLS
dc.subject PROBABILITY
dc.subject RECEIPT
dc.subject RURAL
dc.subject RURAL AREAS
dc.subject SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
dc.subject SOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subject TEACHERS
dc.subject UNIFORMS
dc.subject URBAN AREA
dc.subject URBAN AREAS
dc.title The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment : Evidence from Ecuador en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9541341/impact-cash-transfers-school-enrollment-evidence-ecuador
okr.globalpractice Education
okr.globalpractice Poverty
okr.globalpractice Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-4645
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000158349_20080612133817
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 9541341
okr.identifier.report WPS4645
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/06/12/000158349_20080612133817/Rendered/PDF/wps4645.pdf en
okr.region.administrative Latin America & Caribbean
okr.region.country Ecuador
okr.topic Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Access to Finance
okr.topic Education :: Primary Education
okr.topic Health Systems Development and Reform
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.unit Development Research Group (DECRG)
okr.volume 1 of 1
relation.isSeriesOfPublication 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
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