Will Elders Provide for Their Grandchildren? : Unconditional Cash Transfers and Educational Expenditures in Bolivia

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo ; Chong, Alberto ; Rios-Avila, Fernando ; Yanez Pagans, Monica

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS;    EDUCATION;    EDUCATION SPENDING;    CHILDREN;    HOUSEHOLD;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-8176
RP-ID  :  WPS8176

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper takes advantage of repeatedcross-section household surveys and a sharp discontinuitycreated by the introduction of an unconditional cashtransfer to elders. The paper evaluates the impact of thesecash transfers on the educational expenditures for childrenwithin a household. The analysis finds positive andsignificant effects of the program at the aggregate level.It also finds that the program has stronger effects inindigenous populations and among female and ruralpopulations. The results are robust with respect to a seriesof falsification tests, survey structures, modelspecifications, and estimation methods.