IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/ecdecc/doi10.1086-701829.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?

Author

Listed:
  • Diana Contreras Suarez
  • Lisa Cameron

Abstract

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) aim to increase human capital in poor families. They do this directly through conditions but may also influence household decision-making in other ways. Using a regression discontinuity design, we test whether a large CCT program affects discounting choices and aspirations for children’s education. A greater willingness to defer consumption and desire to invest in education may result from habits formed during the program, through information received, or by the relaxation of the budget constraint. However, we find no evidence of such impacts, which limits the long-term impacts of such programs if the transfers were to cease.

Suggested Citation

  • Diana Contreras Suarez & Lisa Cameron, 2020. "Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(3), pages 729-761.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/701829
    DOI: 10.1086/701829
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701829
    Download Restriction: Access to the online full text or PDF requires a subscription.
    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701829
    Download Restriction: Access to the online full text or PDF requires a subscription.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1086/701829?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fruttero,Anna & Muller,Noel & Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar, 2021. "The Power and Roots of Aspirations : A Survey of the Empirical Evidence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9729, The World Bank.
    2. Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr. & Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel, 2021. "Religiosity and parental educational aspirations for children in Kenya," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 23(C).
    3. Hotak, Nematullah & Kaneko, Shinji, 2022. "Fiscal illusion of the stated preferences of government officials regarding interministerial policy packages: A case study on child labor in Afghanistan," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 285-298.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/701829. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Journals Division (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/EDCC .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.