Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfe...
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| author | Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor |
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| description | Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school participation. Adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference in our context. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1039602022-09-30T08:29:13Z Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Benhassine, Najy Duflo, Esther Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school participation. Adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference in our context. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab World Bank (Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D) Morocco. Minister of National Education Morocco. Council for Higher Education World Bank (Spanish Trust Fund for Impact Evaluation (SIEF)) UNICEF (Gender Action Plan) World Bank (Governance Partnership Facility Programme) 2016-08-19T17:19:09Z 2016-08-19T17:19:09Z 2015-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1945-7731 1945-774X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103960 Benhassine, Najy, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Victor Pouliquen. “ Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A ‘Labeled Cash Transfer’ for Education.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7, no. 3 (August 2015): 86–125.Copyright 2015 American Economic Association. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.20130225 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Economic Association (AEA) American Economic Association |
| spellingShingle | Benhassine, Najy Devoto, Florencia Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Pouliquen, Victor Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education |
| title | Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education |
| title_full | Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education |
| title_fullStr | Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education |
| title_short | Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education |
| title_sort | turning a shove into a nudge a labeled cash transfer for education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103960 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X |
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