Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental evidence that the information content of an education conditional cash transfer program, when given to parents independently of any transfer, can have a substantial effect on school attendance. The effect is as large as 75 percent of the effect of a conditional...
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2018/06/14
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8476
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2018/06/14
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Incentivizing school attendance in the presence of parent-child information frictions
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conditional cash transfer program