The Impact of a Holistic Conditional Cash Transfer Program in New York City on Parental Financial Investment, Student Time Use, and Educational Processes and Outcomes

Purpose This paper evaluates the argument that conditional cash transfer program recipients vote for the incumbent. We also test the hypothesis stating that ceasing to receive the benefit hinders support for the incumbent. Design/methodology/approach Using a regression discontinuity design, we assess the impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano cash transfer program on pro-incumbent voting of each of these four groups. Findings We did not find a significant impact of the transfer on pro-incumbent vote intention in any of the pairwise comparisons, which suggests that contextual factors determining retrospective voting may play an important role in shaping the relationship between pro-incumbent voting and social policy transfers. Originality/value Drawing on quasi-experimental evidence from Ecuador, where the eligibility criteria of the program changed exogenously, we evaluate the impacts of several treatments on pro-incumbent voting. We are able to identify four distinct groups: recipients under both eligibility criteria, nonrecipients under both criteria, new recipients and new nonrecipients.

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More Evidence on the Impact of India's Conditional Cash Transfer Program, Janani Suraksha Yojana: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Effects on Childhood Immunization and Other Reproductive and Child Health Outcomes

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0109311 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (10) ◽

pp. e109311 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Natalie Carvalho ◽

Naveen Thacker ◽

Subodh S. Gupta ◽

Joshua A. Salomon

Keyword(s):

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Transfer Program ◽

Childhood Immunization ◽

Child Health Outcomes ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer Program ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

Reproductive And Child Health ◽

The Impact ◽

And Child Health

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The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Household Income in Colombia

Policy Perspectives ◽

10.4079/pp.v19i0.10423 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 6

Author(s):

Diana Hincapié

Keyword(s):

Income Distribution ◽

Household Income ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Labor Income ◽

Transfer Program ◽

Transfer Programs ◽

Conditional Cash Transfer Program ◽

The Impact

This paper estimates the impact of Familias en Acción, the largest Colombian conditional cash transfer program, on household income. It uses a Quantile Regression methodology and Difference-in-Difference estimators to capture the impact of the program on household income at different quantiles of the income distribution. The estimations show that the program has a positive impact on household income, and that this impact is larger for the households at the lower quantiles of the income distribution. Additional analyses examine whether these results stem from changes in labor market participation or increases in non-labor income. There is some indication that for program participants there was a decrease in labor income, while there was an increase in subsidies or non-labor income. Implications of these findings for conditional cash transfer programs are discussed.

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