Seminars & Events

APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.

Please have a contact with APL organizers by email in advance (contact information is shown in the bottom of this page), if you would like to present your work or attend a seminar.

July 30, 2012, (Monday)12:30-14:00

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization C22 Meeting Room　

Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Educational Spillover Effects: An Analysis of Nicaragua's Red de Protection Social Program


Abstract:　This paper investigates whether conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs affect the educational outcomes of non-targeted children in targeted households. To investigate this issue, panel data are used from a randomized experiment conducted in Nicaragua to evaluate the Red de Protecction Social program. Spillover effects on school enrollment are estimated separately for three types of non-target siblings: older, less-educated siblings; younger siblings; and older, more-educated siblings. Large, positive spillover effects are found for enrollment rates (27.1 and 29.3 percentage points in the first and second years, respectively) only for older, less-educated non-target children. Surprisingly, the estimated effects on enrollment rates are as large as the estimated increases in enrollment rates for target siblings (24.5 and 20.6 percentage points), although they are not directly comparable because of differences in initial enrollment rates. These empirical results are consistent with the predictions from a simple model of the demand for education. It also suggests that an accompanying supply-side intervention could raise schooling outcomes for non-target siblings although the data did not support this hypothesis. The main policy implication of this study is that neglecting spillover effects for non-target siblings underestimates the actual benefits of CCT programs.

Shinya Takamatsu　（Poverty Reduction & Equity Group (PRMPR), World Bank)

Kaoru NABESHIMA（Inter-disciplinary Studies Center）
English

Contact: Institute of Developing Economies, APL Organizers Kenmei Tsubota　E-mail：kenmei_tsubota Yoshihiro Hashiguchi　E-mail:yoshihiro_hashiguchi (do not copy and paste address, formatted differently to prevent spam)