Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia

Serie

• NBER Working Papers

Resumen

• Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression Discontinuity design on administrative data. ITT estimates show a reduction on arrest rates of 2.7pp for men and a reduction on teenage pregnancy of 2.3pp for women. High school dropout rates were reduced by 5.8pp and college enrollment was increased by 1.7pp for men.

autores

• Attanasio, Orazio
• Cardona-Sosa, Lina
• Medina, Carlos
• Meghir, Costas
• Posso, Christian Manuel

fecha de publicación

• 2021

Área temática

• D04 - Política microeconómica; Formulación; Implementación; Evaluación
• I23 - Centros de enseñanza superior y de investigación
• I28 - Educación y centros de investigación: Política pública
• I31 - Bienestar general; Bien ser
• J13 - Fecundidad; Planificación familiar; Atención a la infancia; Infancia; Jóvenes
• K42 - Conducta ilegal y aplicación de la ley

Issue

• 29056