Unconditional cash transfers and child schooling: a meta-analysis

IF 1.9 4区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Zhi Zheng Chong, Siew Yee Lau
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There is growing rigorous evidence on the schooling impacts of unconditional cash transfers, but only few have systematically reviewed the literature. This paper fills the gap through applying a meta-regression analysis to 38 studies of 22 programmes in 18 countries. We find that unconditional cash transfers improve both student enrolment and attendance, and the result is robust to the exclusion of studies with a high risk of bias. We also find statistically significant heterogeneity in effect sizes across studies. The effect on enrolment is larger for a setting where average monthly labour income in the economy is lower and for secondary school students. However, we do not find other moderators in this paper, namely transfer size, whether the programme is pilot, and poverty head headcount ratio, explain the variation in effect sizes. Our paper highlights the need of more evaluations on the schooling impacts of unconditional cash transfers and how tweaks in programme design could make a difference.

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无条件现金转移与儿童入学:一项荟萃分析
关于无条件现金转移对就学影响的严谨证据越来越多,但系统回顾文献的却寥寥无几。本文通过对 18 个国家 22 项计划的 38 项研究进行元回归分析,填补了这一空白。我们发现,无条件的现金转移可以提高学生的入学率和出勤率。我们还发现,不同研究的效果大小在统计学上存在显著差异。对于经济中月均劳动收入较低的环境和中学生而言,现金补助对入学率的影响更大。然而,我们在本文中没有发现其他调节因素,即转移支付规模、计划是否为试点以及贫困人口比率,可以解释效应大小的差异。我们的论文强调,有必要对无条件现金转移对学校教育的影响进行更多的评估,以及对计划设计的调整会如何产生影响。
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期刊介绍: Empirical Economics publishes high quality papers using econometric or statistical methods to fill the gap between economic theory and observed data. Papers explore such topics as estimation of established relationships between economic variables, testing of hypotheses derived from economic theory, treatment effect estimation, policy evaluation, simulation, forecasting, as well as econometric methods and measurement. Empirical Economics emphasizes the replicability of empirical results. Replication studies of important results in the literature - both positive and negative results - may be published as short papers in Empirical Economics. Authors of all accepted papers and replications are required to submit all data and codes prior to publication (for more details, see: Instructions for Authors).The journal follows a single blind review procedure. In order to ensure the high quality of the journal and an efficient editorial process, a substantial number of submissions that have very poor chances of receiving positive reviews are routinely rejected without sending the papers for review.Officially cited as: Empir Econ
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