TY - GEN digital ID - 131446882 TI - Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A “Labeled Cash Transfer” for Education AU - Benhassine, Najy AU - Devoto, Florencia AU - Duflo, Esther AU - Dupas, Pascaline AU - Pouliquen, Victor PY - 2013 PB - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research DB - UniCat KW - Zonder onderwerpscode: economie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131446882 AB - 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. ER -