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Completing secondary > Conditional cash transfers (eCS) > Baez 2011

Detailed Information

Country	Country: Colombia
GDP per capita	3.047
Context details	Households with children under 18 years old and registered in the System of Identification of Potential Beneficiaries of Social Programs
Age	13-18 years old

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2002
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	60
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	The Familias en Accion program provided families with monthly transfers of $18 conditional on at least 80% school attendance

Evaluation design	Regression discontinuity
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
13-18 years old	Graduation	N/A	N/A	816038	Coeff: 4.90; SE: 0.50; SD: 100.00

Study	Baez, Javier E., and Adriana Camacho. "Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia." Mimeograph (2011).