Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work: evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador

By Norbert R. Schady, M. Araujo. 2006

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This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador, conducted in 1999 to present in Ecuador. The study observed the impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador on the household level. The BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percent points, and a large, negative impact on child work, about 17 percent points. Significant program effects on enrollment were only found among households who believed that there was an enrollment requirement associated with the program.

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Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (2016, methodology): “The collective model has been used to understand the effects of targeting cash transfers to women (see, for example, Attanasio and Lechene, 2002, 2014; Schady and Araujo, 2006).”
Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income (2007, background): “This situation was corrected after a few weeks, but withholding transfers from households that had already begun to receive them was judged to be politically imprudent (see Schady and Araujo 2006).”
The Impact of Cash Transfers: A Review of the Evidence from Low- and Middle-income Countries (2018, background): “Cash transfer programmes covered and number of studies from which evidence was extracted Country Programme Type of programme Years of operation Coverage at latest count Number of studies Latin America & Caribbean Bolivia Bonosol/Bolivida pension1 Social pension 1997–present 800,000 individuals (2010”
Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia † (2011, background): “In rural Ecuador, Norbert Schady and Maria Caridad Araujo ( 2006 ) estimate a 3.5 percentage point increase among students aged 6–17 for a monthly transfer of US$15.”
Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs be Conditioned to be Effective? The Impact of Conditioning Transfers on School Enrollment in Mexico (2011, unknown): “4 An exception is work by Schady and Araujo (2006). Using data from the Bono de Desarollo Humano (BDH) cash transfer program operating in Ecuador, they find that the BDH had a large positive effect on enrollment and that the magnitude of the effect reflects, in part, the fact that some households be”
The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant (2006, background): “In a recent paper, Araujo and Schady (2006) evaluate the impact of an unconditional cash transfer program in Ecuador.”
The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil (2012, background): “Schady and Araujo (2006) estimated a positive impact of Ecuador’s Bono de Desarrollo Humano program on enrolment.”