This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay?s conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on the demand for healthcare and education, and how much of this impact was due to the cash transfers and/or due to changes in behaviour/preferences, possibly as an effect of...

How Effective are the Non-monetary Components of CCT Programs?

Os programas de transferência condicionada de renda (PTC) vêm passando por um grande escrutínio de seus impactos em resultados intermediários, tais como o aumento da frequência escolar, melhor nutrição, maiores taxas de imunização, atendimento e cuidados pré e pós-natal e exames de...

Grande parte do debate sobre os programas de transferência condicional de renda (TCR) gira em torno das questões de segmentação e condicionalidade. Apesar das muitas avaliações já realizadas sobre o impacto dos programas de TCR, principalmente na América Latina, há pouca evidência de...

Much of the debate about conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes revolves around the issues of targeting and conditionalities. Despite the many impact evaluations of CCT programmes, mostly in Latin America, there is little evidence on either the effect of the cash alone or the value added by...

In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...

An increasing number of policies in developing countries seek to empower women through female entrepreneurship. Many microfinance institutions (MFIs), for example, lend exclusively to women. Loans are usually combined with capacity building workshops on entrepreneurial activities such as the...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. One issue on which there is a heated...