Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries : A Meta-Analysis
We meta-analyze for impact and cost-effectiveness 94 studies from 47 conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in low- and middle-income countries worldwide, focusing on educational outcomes that include enrollment, attendance, dropout and school completion. To conceptually guide and interpret the empirical findings of our meta-analysis, we present a simple economic framework of household decision-making that generates predictions, all else constant, for the association between certain program context and design characteristics, and impact estimates. We also present a simple model for the analysis of program costs, using it to compute cost-effectiveness estimates for a subsample of CCT programs. For all schooling outcomes, we find strong support for heterogeneity in impact, transfer-effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness estimates. Our meta-analytic results of impact and transfer-effectiveness estimates provide support to some – but not all – of the predictions from the household decision-making model
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2017
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Authors: | Garcia, Sandra |
Other Persons: | Saavedra, Juan (contributor) |
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[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Öffentliche Sozialleistungen | Social security benefits | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Kosten-Wirksamkeits-Analyse | Cost-effectiveness analysis | Schulbesuch | School attendance | Bildungsertrag | Returns to education | Welt | World | Entwicklungsländer | Developing countries |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (65 p) |
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Series: | NBER Working Paper ; No. w23594 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 2017 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951863