The effect of conditional Cash Transfers on educational opportunities. Experimental evidence from Latin America. This version: November 2010.

Autor/in	Ham, Andrés
Titel	The effect of conditional Cash Transfers on educational opportunities. Experimental evidence from Latin America. This version: November 2010.
Quelle	La Plata: Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (2010), 29 S., 326,01 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Documento de trabajo / Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales. 109. Áreas: ML&E, C&P
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch; spanische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; Transfereinkommen; Arbeitspapier; Lateinamerika
Abstract	Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide income to the poor in an effort to improve current welfare and promote investment in human and social capital to prevent future deprivation. So far, the impact evaluation literature has focused on estimating current effects on outcomes such as school attendance, consumption and labor supply. However, these studies overlook potential redistributive effects, mainly via the equalization of opportunities. The ensuing analysis draws from recent contributions in the literature on opportunities and incorporates these with impact evaluation methods. The main findings indicate a remarkable redistributive effect of CCTs and a positive initial impact on opportunities. However, while mean outcomes improve markedly, the evidence suggests that the distribution of opportunities readjusts to the positive gains, perhaps indicating deeply rooted inequities. These results are expected to encourage discussion on program impact beyond those evaluated and addressing the programs' long-term consequences.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/3