Record Details

Turning a Shove into A Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Turning a Shove into A Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29014
 
Creator Benhassine, Najy
Devoto, Florencia
Duflo, Esther
Dupas, Pascaline
Pouliquen, Victor
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural communities, not conditional on school attendance but explicitly labeled as an education support program. We document large gains in school participation. Adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference in our context. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Cash Transfers, Education
 
Type Administrative records data