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Enrollment in secondary > Conditional cash transfers (eES) > Attanasio 2010

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	14-17 years old

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2002
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	N/A
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	The Familias en Accion program provided families with monthly transfers of $16 conditional on at least 80% school attendance

Evaluation design	Differences-in-differences
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
14-17 years old; rural	Enrollment	N/A	N/A	1873	Coeff: 6.22; SE: 2.32; SD: 100.00
14-17 years old; urban	Enrollment	N/A	N/A	1439	Coeff: 4.70; SE: 1.23; SD: 100.00

Study	Attanasio, Orazio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Martha Isabel Gutierrez, Costas Meghir, and Alice Mesnard. "Children’s Schooling and Work in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Rural Colombia." Economic Development and Cultural Change 58, no. 2 (2010): 181-210.