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conditional cash transfers

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DETAILED INFORMATION

CONTEXT

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

INTERVENTION

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

METHODOLOGY

Evaluation design	Differences-in-differences
Cluster definition	-

REFERENCES

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.

EFFECTS

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects%2%
14-17 years old; rural	Enrollment	99999	99999	1,873 1.873	Coeff: 6.22; SE: 2.32; SD: 100.00
14-17 years old; urban	Enrollment	99999	99999	1,439 1.439	Coeff: 4.70; SE: 1.23; SD: 100.00

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