Family Allowances and Child School Attendance: An ex-ante Evaluation of Alternative Schemes in Uruguay
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Asignaciones Familiares is a child allowances program that was incepted in Uruguay in 1942 and significantly modified in 2008. The program is focused on children aged 0 to 18 and aims at alleviating poverty and promoting school attendance particularly among teen-agers. This paper presents an ex-ante evaluation on the effects of this reform on teenager school attendance, poverty, inequality and adult labour supply. Our ex-ante estimated effects indicate that teenage school attendance rates may increase by six to eight percentage points as a result of the new program, and that this change in school attendance shows a progressive pattern. The program also significantly reduces extreme poverty, and to a lesser extent, the intensity and severity of poverty. Effects on poverty incidence and inequality are of small magnitude. Finally, the transfer may influence adult labor supply, inducing a reduction of work hours for household heads and spouses.Download Info
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Keywords: Impact Evaluation; Conditional Cash Transfers; School Attendance; Poverty; Inequality;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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- NEP-ALL-2010-09-18 (All new papers)
- NEP-LAB-2010-09-18 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LAM-2010-09-18 (Central & South America)
- NEP-LTV-2010-09-18 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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