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Replication Data for: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

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Title Replication Data for: Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TN109Y
 
Creator Macours, Karen
Schady, Norbert
Vakis, Renos
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing
world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling,
health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible
impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a
cash transfer program on early childhood cognitive development.
Children in households randomly assigned to receive benefits had
significantly higher levels of development nine months after the program
began. There is no fade-out of program effects two years after
the program ended. Additional random variation shows that these
impacts are unlikely to result from the cash component of the program
alone.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Parrado, Andres