Do Conditional Cash Transfers Lead to Medium-Term Impacts?

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are becoming a popular tool for alleviating short-term poverty and reducing the inter-generational transmission of poverty. More than 30 developing and transition countries have implemented these programs, providing incentives to poor households to make investments in the human capital of their children. Programs vary in scale, transfer size, conditionality's, eligibility, and implementation features. This report is structured around five chapters as follows: the first chapter gives an overview of the program, the context in which it was implemented and available evidence on the impacts of the Female School Stipend Program (FSSP) as well as other CCTs. Chapter two focuses on the questions this evaluation sets out to answer and the methods and information used to answer them. The third chapter presents the results from the analysis and is structured around three evaluation questions regarding average impact, heterogeneity of impacts, and spillover effects. Chapter four performs the robustness checks of the findings, examining whether they are sensitive to preprogram trends, measurement error, endogenous compositional changes, and crowding-out effects. Finally, the conclusion discusses the implications of the results, some limitations of this evaluation, and areas that require further work.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Independent Evaluation Group
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2011
Subjects:	ACADEMIC YEAR, ACADEMIC YEARS, ACCESS TO SCHOOLS, ACCESS TO SERVICES, ADMINISTRATIVE DATA, ADOLESCENT, ADOLESCENT FEMALES, ADOLESCENT GIRLS, ADOLESCENTS, AGE AT MARRIAGE, ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL, ATTENDANCE RATE, ATTENDANCE RATES, ATTENDING SCHOOL, BASIC SERVICES, BIRTH ORDER, BIRTH SPACING, BIRTHS, CHILD BEARING, CHILD CARE, CHILD LABOR, CHILDBEARING, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, COMPLETION RATES, CULTURAL NORMS, DEGREES, DEMAND FOR EDUCATION, DISADVANTAGE OF GIRLS, DOMESTIC WORK, DROP-OUT RATES, DROPOUT RATES, EARLY ADULTHOOD, EARLY CHILDBIRTH, EARLY MARRIAGE, ECONOMIC STATUS, EDUCATED PARENTS, EDUCATED WOMEN, EDUCATION ATTAINMENT, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, EDUCATION LEVELS, EDUCATION OF PARENTS, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATION SERVICES, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGES, EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL REFORM, EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, EMPLOYMENT, ENROLLMENT DATA, ENROLLMENT LEVELS, ENROLLMENT OF BOYS, ENROLLMENT OF GIRLS, ENROLLMENT RATIO, EXPENDITURES, FAMILIES, FAMILY PLANNING, FEMALE ENROLLMENT, FERTILITY BEHAVIOR, FREE TEXTBOOKS, GENDER DISPARITIES, GENDER GAP, GENDER GAPS IN EDUCATION, GENDER INEQUITIES, GIRLS IN SCHOOL, GRADE LEVELS, HEAD TEACHERS, HEALTH SERVICES, HIGH SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, HIGH SCHOOLS, HIGHER GRADES, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INCENTIVES FOR GIRLS, INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES, LABOR FORCE, LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKETS, LEARNING, LEVELS OF ENROLLMENT, LITERACY, LITERACY RATE, LITERACY RATES, LITERATURE, LOCAL SCHOOL COUNCILS, LOW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, LOW ENROLLMENT, MARITAL STATUS, MIDDLE SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION, MIDDLE SCHOOLS, NATIONAL EDUCATION, NET ENROLLMENT, NEW ENTRANTS, NUMBER OF SCHOOLS, OLD GIRLS, PARENTAL EDUCATION, PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, PARTICIPATION OF GIRLS, PARTICIPATION RATES, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, POSITIVE IMPACT, POVERTY REDUCTION, PREGNANCY, PREGNANCY RATES, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY LEVEL, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, PROVINCIAL EDUCATION, PUBLIC SCHOOL, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, QUALITY OF INFRASTRUCTURE, RATE OF LITERACY, READING, REGULAR ATTENDANCE, REPEATERS, REPRODUCTIVE LIFE, RESEARCH CENTERS, RESEARCH INSTITUTE, RURAL AREAS, RURAL VILLAGE, RURAL WOMEN, SANITATION, SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL CENSUS, SCHOOL CENSUSES, SCHOOL COMPLETION, SCHOOL COSTS, SCHOOL COUNCILS, SCHOOL DATA, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, SCHOOL ENTRY, SCHOOL FACILITIES, SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE, SCHOOL LEVEL, SCHOOL PARTICIPATION, SCHOOL QUALITY, SCHOOL REHABILITATION, SCHOOL SUPPLY, SCHOOL-AGE, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLING OF BOYS, SCHOOLS, SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY LEVEL, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SEXUAL ACTIVITY, SEXUAL PARTNERS, SIGNIFICANT IMPACT, SOCIAL NORMS, STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO, STUDENT-TEACHER RATIOS, TEACHER, TEACHER RATIOS, TEACHERS, TEACHING, URBAN AREAS, URBAN CENTERS, YOUNG GIRL, YOUNG GIRLS, YOUNG WOMEN, YOUNGER GIRLS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/459061468057349268/Do-conditional-cash-transfers-lead-to-medium-term-impacts-Evidence-from-a-female-school-stipend-program-in-Pakistan https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27788
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