• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
  • Beteiligte: Cahyadi, Nur; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; Prima, Rizal Adi; Satriawan, Elan; Syamsulhakim, Ekki
  • Erschienen: American Economic Association, 2020
  • Erschienen in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 12 (2020) 4, Seite 88-110
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1257/pol.20190245
  • ISSN: 1945-7731; 1945-774X
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  • Beschreibung: Conditional cash transfers provide income and promote human capital investments. Yet evaluating their longitudinal impacts is hard, as most experimental evaluations treat control locations after a few years. We examine such impacts in Indonesia after six years, where the program rollout left the experiment largely intact. We find static effects on many targeted indicators: childbirth using trained professionals increased dramatically, and under-15 children not in school fell by half. We observe impacts requiring cumulative investments: stunting fell by 23 percent. While human capital accumulation increased, the transfers did not lead to transformative economic change for recipient households. (JEL I21, I38, J13, J24, O15)