The Indonesian Government launched a for-poor students cash transfer program (Bantuan Siswa Miskin or BSM) to aid poor students in attaining goods and services necessary to support schooling activities. Recipients are given a freedom on how to spend the BSM cash, and ideally they should spend...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide, and are designed to promote comprehensive human capital investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and continuing through incentivizing school attendance....