scholarly journals Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Macours ◽  
Norbert Schady ◽  
Renos Vakis
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Program Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a cash transfer program on early childhood cognitive development. Children in households randomly assigned to receive benefits had significantly higher levels of development nine months after the program began. There is no fade-out of program effects two years after the program ended. Additional random variation shows that these impacts are unlikely to result from the cash component of the program alone. (JEL H23, I15, J13, O15)

scholarly journals Maximizing the impact of the Canada Child Benefit: Implications for clinicians and researchers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Pentland ◽  
Eyal Cohen ◽  
Astrid Guttmann ◽  
Claire de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Child Poverty ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Previous Child ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Child Benefit

Abstract Child poverty remains a persistent problem in Canada and is well known to lead to poor health outcomes. The Canada Child Benefit (CCB) is a cash transfer program in effect since 2016, which increased both the benefit amount and number of families eligible for the previous child benefit. While the CCB has decreased child poverty rates, not all eligible families have participated. Clinicians can play an important role in screening for uptake of the program and helping families navigate the application process through several free resources. While prior research on past programs has shown benefit of similar cash transfer programs to both child and parental outcomes (both health and social), the CCB has not yet been extensively studied. Research would be valuable in both assessing the cost effectiveness of the program, especially across different income groups, and improving implementation in hard-to-reach populations.

scholarly journals The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Household Income in Colombia

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Diana Hincapié
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Labor Income ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer Program ◽  
The Impact

This paper estimates the impact of Familias en Acción, the largest Colombian conditional cash transfer program, on household income. It uses a Quantile Regression methodology and Difference-in-Difference estimators to capture the impact of the program on household income at different quantiles of the income distribution. The estimations show that the program has a positive impact on household income, and that this impact is larger for the households at the lower quantiles of the income distribution. Additional analyses examine whether these results stem from changes in labor market participation or increases in non-labor income. There is some indication that for program participants there was a decrease in labor income, while there was an increase in subsidies or non-labor income. Implications of these findings for conditional cash transfer programs are discussed.

Do cash transfers help the poor during trade liberalization? Evidence from Laos

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-371
Author(s):  
Phouphet Kyophilavong ◽  
Xaignasack Lassachack ◽  
Thanouxay Volavong
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium Model ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Liberalization Policy ◽  
The Impact

Our objective is to assess the impact of trade liberalization and cash transfer programs on poverty and income distribution in Laos.We use the computable general equilibrium model and micro-simulation to assess the impact of transfer programs during trade liberalization.The results of this study indicate that cash transfers reduce poverty and narrow income inequality during trade liberalization. Policy-makers should promote development and implementation of cash transfer in Laos in order to protect poor people from the external shocks such the impact of trade liberalization. This finding might have significant impact on promotion of cash transfer programs in order to reduce poverty and income inequality.This is the first paper to investingate the impact of a cash transfer program on poverty in Laos during trade liberalization.

scholarly journals Cash transfers and early childhood care and education in Zimbabwe: A critical inquiry to discourse, theory and practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilton Nyamukapa
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Early Childhood Care ◽  
Food Education ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
Access To Food

<p>Cash transfer based social protection can potentially contribute positively upon targeted beneficiaries on a variety of developmental aspects. This study explored the pilot and scaled-up phases of the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer program to determine impacts towards improving under-eight children’s access to food, education, and health services. Stories of significant change were gathered in retrospect from purposively sampled caregivers and children beneficiaries. Based on thematic and guided analysis, it emerged that the programmes’ theoretical and practical approaches renders the interventions less effective as impact assessment is narrowed to the early childhood cohort. This is furthered by relatively insufficient size of grants disbursed per household and commodity supply-side challenges. Consequently, a review to theoretical and practical tenets of the cash transfer approach becomes imminent in the Zimbabwean context. Targeting criteria needs refinement and supplemented with policy and multi-faceted public investment to address underlying limitations to impact on young children. </p>

The Anti-Incumbent Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Sanches Corrêa ◽  
José Antonio Cheibub
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer Programs ◽  
Latin American Countries

AbstractScholars concur that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have a strong proincumbent effect among beneficiaries. Although no study has properly focused on the overall effect of cash transfers on incumbents' national vote shares, most scholars have deduced that this effect is positive; i.e., that cash transfers lead to the expansion of incumbents' electoral bases. This article analyzes survey data from nearly all Latin American countries and confirms that beneficiaries of CCT programs are more likely to support incumbents. However, it also shows that CCT programs may induce many voters who were previously incumbent supporters to vote for the opposition. As a consequence, the overall impact of cash transfers on incumbents' vote shares is indeterminate; it depends on the balance between both patterns of behavioral changes among voters. This study is the first to report evidence that cash transfer programs may have significant anti-incumbent effects.

scholarly journals Compulsory education laws or incentives from CCT programs? Explaining the rise in secondary school attendance rate in Argentina

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Edo ◽  
Mariana Marchionni ◽  
Santiago Garganta
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Latin American ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
National Education ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
The Impact

Argentina has traditionally stood out in terms of educational outcomes among its Latin American counterparts. Schooling of older children, however, still shows room for improvement especially among the more vulnerable. Fortunately, during the last years a sizeable improvement in attendance rates for children aged 15 through 17 took place. This could be related to the 2006 National Education Law that made upper-secondary education compulsory. In this paper, instead, we claim that the Asignación Universal por Hijo (Universal Child Allowance, AUH) -a massive conditional cash transfer program implemented in 2009 in Argentina- may be mostly responsible for this improvement. Using a difference-in-difference strategy we estimate that the program accounts for a 3.9 percentage point increase in the probability of attending secondary school among eligible children aged 15 through 17. The impact seems to be led by boys and is more relevant for children living in larger families where the head of household has a lower educational level.

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