TY - BOOK ID - 135561829 TI - The Impact of Cash Transfers On School Enrollment : Evidence From Ecuador AU - Oosterbeek, Hessel AU - Ponce, Juan AU - Schady, Norbert PY - 2008 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Cash transfer programs KW - Cash transfers KW - Health Systems Development and Reform KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Human capital KW - Human development KW - Poor KW - Poor families KW - Poverty KW - Poverty index KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Poverty reduction KW - Poverty Reduction Strategies KW - Rural Development KW - Rural Poverty Reduction KW - Social programs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135561829 AB - This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression discontinuity design for families around the second quintile of this index, which is the program's eligibility threshold. This allows us to compare results from two different credible identification methods, and to investigate whether the impact varies with families' poverty level. Around the first quintile of the poverty index the impact is positive while it is equal to zero around the second quintile. This suggests that for the poorest families the program lifts a credit constraint while this is not the case for families close to the eligibility threshold. ER -