Will Elders Provide for Their Grandchildren? : Unconditional Cash Transfers and Educational Expenditures in Bolivia
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 expe...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/881741504013158445/Will-elders-provide-for-their-grandchildren-unconditional-cash-transfers-and-educational-expenditures-in-Bolivia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28351 |
| Summary: | 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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