Title: Replication Data for: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Type Dataset Macours, Karen, Schady, Norbert, Vakis, Renos (2018): Replication Data for: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TN109Y

Authors: Macours, Karen (Paris School of Economics) ; Schady, Norbert (Inter-American Development Bank) ; Vakis, Renos (World Bank) ; Macours, Karen (Paris School of Economics) ; Schady, Norbert (Inter-American Development Bank) ; Vakis, Renos (World Bank) ;

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Summary

Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a cash transfer program on early childhood cognitive development. Children in households randomly assigned to receive benefits had significantly higher levels of development nine months after the program began. There is no fade-out of program effects two years after the program ended. Additional random variation shows that these impacts are unlikely to result from the cash component of the program alone.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/TN109Y

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: June 25, 2018
• Updated: July 25, 2018

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Waiver

Format

electronic resource

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