Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs : Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia

• Tác giả: Felipe Barrera-Osorio
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 378.86 Higher education
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308684
• Chủ đề: 1. Analysis of Education I210; 2. Educational Finance I220; 3. Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230; 4. Redistributive Effects; 5. Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities

Tóm tắt

Using a student level randomization, we compare three education-based conditional cash transfers designs: a standard design, a design where part of the monthly transfers are postponed until children have to re-enroll in school, and a design that lowers the reward for attendance but incentivizes graduation and tertiary enrollment. The two nonstandard designs significantly increase enrollment rates at both the secondary and tertiary levels while delivering the same attendance gains as the standard design. Postponing some of the attendance transfers to the time of re-enrollment appears particularly effective for the most at-risk children.