Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment
Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment
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DOI：
10.1093/qje/qjr032
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发表时间：
2011-11-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Oezler, Berk
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作者：
Baird, Sarah;McIntosh, Craig;Oezler, Berk
本文通过一项针对马拉维青春期女孩的独特实验，评估了条件在现金转移方案中的作用。该计划有两种截然不同的干预措施：无条件转移支付(UCT ARM)和有条件上学转移支付(CCT ARM)。尽管与对照组相比，UCT组的辍学率略有下降，但仅为2年计划结束时CCT组的43%。CCT组在英语阅读理解测试中的表现也好于UCT组。然而，UCT的少女怀孕率和结婚率大大低于CCT组，这完全是由于UCT对辍学女孩的这些结果的影响。
This article assesses the role of conditionality in cash transfer programs using a unique experiment targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi. The program featured two distinct interventions: unconditional transfers (UCT arm) and transfers conditional on school attendance (CCT arm). Although there was a modest decline in the dropout rate in the UCT arm in comparison with the control group, it was only 43% as large as the impact in the CCT arm at the end of the 2-year program. The CCT arm also outperformed the UCT arm in tests of English reading comprehension. However, teenage pregnancy and marriage rates were substantially lower in the UCT than the CCT arm, entirely due to the impact of UCTs on these outcomes among girls who dropped out of school.