Benhassine, Najy
[Author]
;
Duflo, Esther
[Other];
Devoto, Florencia
[Other];
Dupas, Pascaline
[Other];
Pouliquen, Victor
[Other]National Bureau of Economic Research
Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education
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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2013
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w19227
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1 Online-Ressource
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English
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10.3386/w19227
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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 make almost no difference. The program increased parents' belief that education was a worthwhile investment, a likely pathway for the results