Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty

By Ariel Fiszbein, Norbert R. Schady, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Margaret E. Grosh, Niall Keleher, Pedro Olinto, Emmanuel Skoufias. 2009

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Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “Recent qualitative review studies of CCT evaluations (IEG, 2011; Fiszbein et al., 2009; Rawlings and Rubio, 2005) conclude that, on the whole, these programs have positive effects on schooling (enrollment, attendance, dropout) and health (vaccinations, medical check-up) outcomes.”
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico (2013, background): “Outside of Latin America, Turkey, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Kenia, Yemen, Indonesia India, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Macedonia, Pakistian, Philippines and even New York City have their own CCT (Fiszbein and Schady 2009).”
Welfare programs and labor supply in developing countries: experimental evidence from Latin America (2012, unknown): “While results vary from country to country, program evaluations reveal, to some degree, a positive effect on years of schooling, reductions in child labor and improvements in some key health indicators (Rawlings and Rubio 2003 and 2005; Bouillon and Tejerina, 2006; Fiszbein and Schady, 2009), as wel”
Transfers, diversification and household risk strategies : experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation (2012, unknown): “Similar results have been shown for CCTs in other countries (Fiszbein and Schady, 2009).”
Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “See below.”
Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (2012, background): “26 31 See Legovini et al. (2005). In addition to changes in the returns to education, Bosch and Manacorda (2010) found that the deterioration of the minimum wage in Mexico’s urban areas is responsible for rise in inequality during the 1980s.”
Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, unknown): “We will also neglect most of the research on conditional cash transfers, in part because it have been reviewed elsewhere (see for example, Fiszbein and Schady, 2009).”
Can Cash Transfer Programmes Have ‘Transformative’ Effects? (2016, background): “Evidence from across the world confirmed that well targeted, well designed social transfer programmes were an effective and affordable instrument for reducing the incidence and intensity of household poverty with measureable improvements in child health and educational attendance (Arnold et al., 201”
When Payouts Pay Off: Conditional Cash Transfers and Voting Behavior in Brazil 2002-10: CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS AND VOTING BEHAVIOR (2013, background): “…present in dozens of countries, and large-scale national-level programs such as the Mexican Progresa/Oportunidades and the Brazilian Bolsa Escola/Bolsa Famı́lia cover millions of poor families and have become important pillars of their countries’ social protection systems (Fiszbein et al. 2009).”