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Title: Turning a Shove into A Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education

Type Dataset Benhassine, Najy, Devoto, Florencia, Duflo, Esther, Dupas, Pascaline, Pouliquen, Victor (2015): Turning a Shove into A Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/29014

Authors: Benhassine, Najy (World Bank) ; Devoto, Florencia (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Pouliquen, Victor (Paris School of Economics) ; Benhassine, Najy (World Bank) ; Devoto, Florencia (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ; Duflo, Esther (MIT) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford) ; Pouliquen, Victor (Paris School of Economics) ; Harvard Dataverse Network ;

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Summary

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.

More information

  • DOI: 10.7910/DVN/29014

Subjects

  • Social Sciences, Cash Transfers, Education
  • CESSDA: Educational policy

Dates

  • Publication date: 2015
  • Issued: February 03, 2015
  • Submitted: February 03, 2015
  • Updated: August 01, 2022
  • Collected: 2008-06 to 2010-07

Notes

Datacite resource type: Administrative records data

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Funding Information

AwardnumberAwarduriFunderidentifierFunderidentifiertypeFundername
The World Bank
The Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund
The Gender Action Plan
The Korean Trust Fund for ICT4D (InfoDev)
The multidonor trusts fund Governance Partnership Facility
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT

Format

electronic resource

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