Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons (), Ana Gómez, Martha Isabel Gutierrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard ()
Additional contact information
Emla Fitzsimons: Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London
Ana Gómez: Institute for Fiscal Studies and http://www.econometriaconsultores.com/
Martha Isabel Gutierrez: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Alice Mesnard: Institute for Fiscal Studies and City University London

No W06/13, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us to identify anticipation effects. Our results show that the programme increased school participation of 14 to 17 year old children quite substantially, by between 5 and 7 percentage points, and had lower, but non-negligible effects on enrolment of younger children of between around 1.5 and 2.5 percentage points. In terms of work, the effects are generally largest for younger children whose participation in domestic work decreased by around 10 to 12 percentage points after the programme but whose participation in income-generating work remained largely unaffected by the programme. We also find evidence of school and work time not being fully substitutable, suggesting that some, but not all, of the increased time at school may be drawn from children's leisure time.

JEL-codes: I28 I38 J22 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pp. 35
Date: 2006-07-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-edu and nep-lam
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (33)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ifs.org.uk/wps/wp0613.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.ifs.org.uk/wps/wp0613.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.ifs.org.uk/wps/wp0613.pdf [302 Found]--> https://ifs.org.uk/wps/wp0613.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia (2006)
Working Paper: Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia (2006)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ifs:ifsewp:06/13

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
The Institute for Fiscal Studies 7 Ridgmount Street LONDON WC1E 7AE

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies The Institute for Fiscal Studies 7 Ridgmount Street LONDON WC1E 7AE. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Emma Hyman ().