Working Paper 563 March 2021* The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers for Children with Multiple Indicators of Vulnerability Abstract Cash transfers boost educational outcomes for poor children on average, but among the poor, which children benefit most? This study examines the educational impacts of cash transfers for children facing different challenges (e.g., being girls, orphans, among the poorest, and having low baseline exam performance), drawing on a randomized, community implemented conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor households in Tanzania. On average, being assigned to receive transfers significantly improves children’s school participation (by between 8 and 10 percentage points) and primary completion rates (by between 14 and 16 percentage points). Differing point estimates suggest that gains are unequally distributed across children. As a result of the program, the poorest children are more likely to ever have attended school, whereas the less poor are more likely to complete primary school. Boys and girls benefit similarly. Educational gains are concentrated among students performing better in school at baseline. www.cgdev.org David K. Evans, Charles Gale, and Katrina Kosec Keywords: cash transfers, education, Tanzania, poverty JEL: C93, I21, O12 *This paper was first published in December 2020. It was revised in March 2021. The original version of the working paper is available here: https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/education- impacts-cash-transfers-children-multiple-indicators-vulnerability.pdf
The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers for Children with Multiple Indicators of Vulnerability
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