Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program

We analyze the impact of conditional cash payments on school enrollment, child labor and labor supply implemented between 2005 and 2007 to the poorest Uruguayan households. Targeting income discontinuities are not observed around the thresholds to participate in the program and this result invalidat...

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Autores principales:	Borraz,Fernando, González,Nicolás
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2009
Materias:	Conditional Cash Transfer Program Targeting Method Propensity Score Matching
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-682120090002000062011-09-21Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer programBorraz,FernandoGonzález,Nicolás Conditional Cash Transfer Program Targeting Method Propensity Score Matching We analyze the impact of conditional cash payments on school enrollment, child labor and labor supply implemented between 2005 and 2007 to the poorest Uruguayan households. Targeting income discontinuities are not observed around the thresholds to participate in the program and this result invalidates the use of regression discontinuity designsfor evaluating causal effects of the intervention. We apply the propensity score matching estimator to account for the endogenity of program participation. We find that the program has no impact on school attendance but reduces female child labor in Montevideo. In addition negative effects are detected on the labor market in the rest of the urban areas.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileCuadernos de economía v.46 n.134 20092009-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-68212009000200006en10.4067/S0717-68212009000200006
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description	We analyze the impact of conditional cash payments on school enrollment, child labor and labor supply implemented between 2005 and 2007 to the poorest Uruguayan households. Targeting income discontinuities are not observed around the thresholds to participate in the program and this result invalidates the use of regression discontinuity designsfor evaluating causal effects of the intervention. We apply the propensity score matching estimator to account for the endogenity of program participation. We find that the program has no impact on school attendance but reduces female child labor in Montevideo. In addition negative effects are detected on the labor market in the rest of the urban areas.
author	Borraz,Fernando González,Nicolás
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title	Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program
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publisher	Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program

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