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

Felipe BarreraOsorio | Zendy; Marianne Bertrand | Zendy; Leigh Linden | Zendy; Francisco Pérez-Calle | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Felipe BarreraOsorio,

Marianne Bertrand,

Leigh Linden,

Francisco Pérez-Calle

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.3.2.167

Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , conditional cash transfer , attendance , randomized experiment , randomization , transfer (computing) , demographic economics , mathematics education , economics , psychology , randomized controlled trial , medicine , statistics , mathematics , computer science , economic growth , poverty , geometry , surgery , parallel computing

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. (JEL H23, I21, I22, J13, O15)

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