Conditional Cash Transfers to Improve Education and Health: An Ex ante Evaluation of Red de Proteccion Social, Nicaragua

Ranjeeta Thomas ()

Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers from HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

Abstract: This paper uses baseline data from the randomized experiment of the conditional cash transfer program - Red de Proteccion Social, Nicaragua to conduct an ex ante evaluation and compares results to those of the experimental evaluation. Reduced form estimation of a behavioural model using a health production framework forms the basis of the evaluation. A Klein and Spady semi-parametric single index model is used to predict unobserved outcomes under the treatment. The sample consists of children aged 7-13 who have not completed grade 4. The evaluation shows that the ex ante approach closely matches the experimental outcomes in the case of girls and over predicts the impact for boys.

Keywords: ex ante evaluation; conditional cash transfers; single index models; education; health production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I20 I38 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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Journal Article: CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION AND HEALTH: AN EX ANTE EVALUATION OF RED DE PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL, NICARAGUA (2012)
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