Medium- and Long-Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Leigh L. Linden, Juan Saavedra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Linden, Leigh L.

Saavedra, Juan.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23275.

NBER working paper series no. w23275

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Medium- and Long-Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.

Summary:

We show that three Colombian conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for secondary schools improve educational outcomes eight and 12 years after random assignment relative to a control group. Forcing families to save a portion of the transfers until they make enrollment decisions for the next academic year increases on-time enrollment in secondary school, reduces dropout rates, and promotes tertiary enrollment and completion in the long-term. Traditionally structured bimonthly transfers improve on-time enrollment and high school exit exam completion rates in the medium term, but do not affect long-term tertiary outcomes. A delayed transfer that directly incentivizes tertiary enrollment promotes secondary school on-time enrollment and enrollment--only in lower-quality tertiary institutions--in the medium term but not the long term.

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Print version record

March 2017.