Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their long-ter...

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Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo
Camacho González, Adriana
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2011
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Universidad de los Andes
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Conditional cash transfers
School completio
Academic achievement
Learning outcomes
Servicio social - Investigaciones - Colombia
Asistencia escolar - Investigaciones - Colombia
Rendimiento académico - Investigaciones - Colombia
I24, I25, I28, I38
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
dc.title.alternative.none.fl_str_mv Evaluación de los efectos de largo plazo de las transferencias condicionadas en la inversión en capital humano: evidencia de Colombia
title Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
spellingShingle Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
Conditional cash transfers
School completio
Academic achievement
Learning outcomes
Servicio social - Investigaciones - Colombia
Asistencia escolar - Investigaciones - Colombia
Rendimiento académico - Investigaciones - Colombia
I24, I25, I28, I38
title_short Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
title_full Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
title_fullStr Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
title_sort Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo
Camacho González, Adriana
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo
Camacho González, Adriana
dc.subject.keyword.none.fl_str_mv Conditional cash transfers
School completio
Academic achievement
Learning outcomes
topic Conditional cash transfers
School completio
Academic achievement
Learning outcomes
Servicio social - Investigaciones - Colombia
Asistencia escolar - Investigaciones - Colombia
Rendimiento académico - Investigaciones - Colombia
I24, I25, I28, I38
dc.subject.armarc.none.fl_str_mv Servicio social - Investigaciones - Colombia
Asistencia escolar - Investigaciones - Colombia
Rendimiento académico - Investigaciones - Colombia
dc.subject.jel.none.fl_str_mv I24, I25, I28, I38
description Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their long-term impacts on human capital. In this paper we investigate whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained more school and performed better in academic tests at the end of high school. Identification of program impacts is derived from two different strategies using matching techniques with household surveys, and regression discontinuity design using census of the poor and administrative records of the program. We show that, on average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school, particularly girls and beneficiaries in rural areas. Regarding long-term impact on tests scores, the analysis shows that program recipients who graduate from high school seem to perform at the same level as equally poor non-recipient graduates, even after correcting for possible selection bias when low-performing students enter school in the treatment group. Even though the positive impacts on high school graduation may improve the employment and earning prospects of participants, the lack of positive effects on the test scores raises the need to further explore policy actions to couple CCT's objective of increasing human capital with enhanced learning.
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spelling Al consultar y hacer uso de este recurso, está aceptando las condiciones de uso establecidas por los autores.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardoa6b212ac-dfb7-4031-96be-79b55a668832500Camacho González, Adriana75896002018-09-27T16:51:36Z2018-09-27T16:51:36Z20111657-5334http://hdl.handle.net/1992/82531657-719110.57784/1992/8253instname:Universidad de los Andesreponame:Repositorio Institucional Sénecarepourl:https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their long-term impacts on human capital. In this paper we investigate whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained more school and performed better in academic tests at the end of high school. Identification of program impacts is derived from two different strategies using matching techniques with household surveys, and regression discontinuity design using census of the poor and administrative records of the program. We show that, on average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school, particularly girls and beneficiaries in rural areas. Regarding long-term impact on tests scores, the analysis shows that program recipients who graduate from high school seem to perform at the same level as equally poor non-recipient graduates, even after correcting for possible selection bias when low-performing students enter school in the treatment group. Even though the positive impacts on high school graduation may improve the employment and earning prospects of participants, the lack of positive effects on the test scores raises the need to further explore policy actions to couple CCT's objective of increasing human capital with enhanced learning.Los programas de Transferencias Condicionadas (CCT- por su sigla en inglés) otorgan dinero a las familias pobres a cambio de mantener sus hijos en la escuela y llevarlos a controles de salud. Si bien hay estudios que demuestran que estos programas tienen un impacto positivo sobre la asistencia escolar, es muy poco lo que se sabe sobre sus efectos a largo plazo en la acumulación de capital humano. Este trabajo investiga si las cohortes de niños que se han beneficiado de programa Familias en Acción hasta por 9 años, se han graduado en mayor proporción y si han obtenido mejores resultados en las pruebas estandarizadas del ICFES. Utilizamos dos estrategias empíricas y tres fuentes de información para identificar los resultados de este trabajo: primero, desarrollamos un método de emparejamiento utilizando las encuestas de hogares realizadas para la evaluación de corto plazo este programa, y segundo, desarrollamos el método de regresión discontinua utilizando los registros administrativos del Sisben y SIFA (Sistema de Información Familias en Acción). Encontramos que, en promedio, los niños participantes incrementan entre 4 y 8 puntos porcentuales su probabilidad de graduarse de la escuela; este efecto se ve en particular para las niñas y las áreas rurales. En cuanto a impacto sobre los resultados del ICFES, el análisis no muestra un efecto diferenciado para los beneficiarios del programa, incluso después de corregir por el posible sesgo de selección negativo que existe en el grupo de tratamiento. A pesar de que los impactos positivos sobre la graduación de la escuela secundaria pueden mejorar el empleo y las perspectivas de ingresos de los participantes, la falta de efectos positivos sobre los resultados del examen plantea la necesidad de complementar los programas de Transferencia Condicionadas con estrategias enfocadas en la mejora del aprendizaje.52 páginasapplication/pdfengUniversidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDEDocumentos CEDE No. 24 Mayo de 2011https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000089/008900.htmlAssessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from ColombiaEvaluación de los efectos de largo plazo de las transferencias condicionadas en la inversión en capital humano: evidencia de ColombiaDocumento de trabajoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Texthttps://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/WPConditional cash transfersSchool completioAcademic achievementLearning outcomesServicio social - Investigaciones - ColombiaAsistencia escolar - Investigaciones - ColombiaRendimiento académico - Investigaciones - ColombiaI24, I25, I28, I38Facultad de EconomíaPublicationORIGINALdcede2011-24.pdfdcede2011-24.pdfapplication/pdf887116https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/ead0ec5b-e657-43a0-882b-f9eccfd48997/download05f0c858b52d18f3c5e7be9d017a9e5eMD51TEXTdcede2011-24.pdf.txtdcede2011-24.pdf.txtExtracted texttext/plain138657https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/8e6fd9c1-79fa-4b6e-b8be-e15863deefd0/downloadd0e0c4a9892152555a3dffd5de9e8529MD54THUMBNAILdcede2011-24.pdf.jpgdcede2011-24.pdf.jpgIM Thumbnailimage/jpeg3416https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/48949afa-f5b5-4637-8fed-890b173ad3ea/downloadd2f10ee5fe1d407c4709be530bd83057MD551992/8253oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/82532024-06-04 15:28:03.391http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/open.accesshttps://repositorio.uniandes.edu.coRepositorio institucional Sénecaadminrepositorio@uniandes.edu.co