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Will elders provide for their grandchildren ?: unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia

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  • Canavire-Bacarreza,Gustavo
  • Chong,Alberto
  • Rios-Avila,Fernando
  • Yanez Pagans,Monica

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This paper takes advantage of repeated cross-section household surveys and a sharp discontinuity created by the introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to elders. The paper evaluates the impact of these cash transfers on the educational expenditures for children within a household. The analysis finds positive and significant effects of the program at the aggregate level. It also finds that the program has stronger effects in indigenous populations and among female and rural populations. The results are robust with respect to a series of falsification tests, survey structures, model specifications, and estimation methods.

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  • Canavire-Bacarreza,Gustavo & Chong,Alberto & Rios-Avila,Fernando & Yanez Pagans,Monica, 2017. "Will elders provide for their grandchildren ?: unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8176, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8176
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    1. Koen Decancq & Javier Olivera & Erik Schokkaert, 2018. "Program evaluation and ethnic differences: the Pension 65 program in Peru," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven 630047, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
    2. Chong, Zhi Zheng & Lau, Siew Yee, 2023. "A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Educational Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers," MPRA Paper 113587, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Ye, Juntao & Cai, Liming & Shi, Xinjie & Cheng, Mingwang, 2024. "Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).

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