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Trial End Date October 02, 2002 October 01, 2002
Last Published July 06, 2014 07:22 AM July 25, 2014 02:49 PM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date October 01, 2002
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 70
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 120.411 Students
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms G1: 20 municipalities with 38,435 students G2: 20 municipalities with 39,065 students G3: 10 municipalities with 14,154 students G4: 20 municipalities with 28,757 students
Do all standard errors account for clustering? Yes
Public Data URL http://academics.wellesley.edu/Economics/mcewan/PDF/GalianiandMcEwan(2013).zip
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL http://academics.wellesley.edu/Economics/mcewan/PDF/GalianiandMcEwan(2013).zip
Data Collection Completion Date August 04, 2001
Is data available for public use? Yes
Intervention (Public) The municipalities were randomly allocated into four groups: Group 1 (G1) families received health and education transfers Group 2 (G2) families received health and education transfers; schools and health centers received transfers Group 3 (G3) only schools and health centers received transfers Group 4 (G4) served as a comparison 70 municipalities were randomly allocated into four groups: Group 1 (G1) families received health and education transfers Group 2 (G2) families received health and education transfers; schools and health centers received transfers Group 3 (G3) only schools and health centers received transfers Group 4 (G4) served as a comparison The education transfer, in the amount of 800 Lempiras per year (about US$50), was available to each child between 6 to 12 who enrolled in and regularly attended grades 1 to 4 between the school year of February to November. A health transfer of 644 Lempiras per year (about US$40) was available to children under 3 and pregnant mothers who regularly attended health centers. Households were eligible to receive up to 3 education transfers and up to 2 health transfers. The 70 municipalities were divided into 5 quintiles based on mean height-for-age, and 8 of 14 municipalities in each quintile were randomly selected to receive transfers.
Intervention Start Date October 02, 1999 November 02, 2000
Primary Outcomes (End Points) student participation, gender The main outcomes studied are whether an eligible child for the educational transfer is: Enrolled in school Works outside home Works only in home See Table A.1 in the attached document.
Planned Number of Observations 120,411 students 120,411 students
First registered on May 30, 2014
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Paper Abstract The Honduran PRAF experiment randomly assigned conditional cash transfers to 40 of 70 poor municipalities, within five strata defined by a poverty proxy. Using census data, we show that eligible children were 8 percentage points more likely to enroll in school and 3 percentage points less likely to work. The effects were much larger in the two poorest strata, and statistically insignificant in the other three (the latter finding is robust to the use of a separate regression-discontinuity design). Heterogeneity confirms the importance of judicious targeting to maximize the impact and cost-effectiveness of CCTs. There is no consistent evidence of effects on ineligible children or on adult labor supply.
Paper Citation Galiani, S. and P. McEwan, Experimental heterogeneous effects in conditional cash transfers. Journal of Public Economics, 2013, Volume 103, pages 85-96
Paper URL http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1931216
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